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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bethnal Green 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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Table: TABLE F.

TABLE F.

0.24 per cent., or 1 in 416 deaths.
17.55 „ „ 5.70 „
14.66 „ „ 6.82
Diphtheria6.25 „ „ 16.00 „
Whooping Cough24.28 „ „ 4.12 „
0.72 „ „ 138.67 „
Enteric Fever6.73 „ „ 14.19 „
Diarrhœa29.57 „ „ 3.38 „

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SMALL POX.
(Decennial average, 44.8).
Only one death was recorded from this disease, but three cases
were reported, two of which wore removed to Hospital, where they
recovered. The fatal case4 was a vaccinated child aged three years,
and the cause of death was returned as "Suppressed Small Pox
and Pneumonia."
There were only nine deaths from this causo in the whole of
London during the past year, including two in the Hospital Sliips
at Dartford. In no previous year since civil registration began,
has the number been so small.
SCAELET FEVEE.
(Decennial average, 94.2).
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever reported during the year
was 2G6 against 90 last year. The disease caused 61 deaths;
double the mortality of the previous year, but still equal to only
two thirds of the decennial averago. Scarlet Fever was prevalent
during the autumn and winter. A very large proportion of the
cases were removed to the Asylums' Board Hospitals, the managers
of which were subjected to a very severe strain, in order to meet the
increased demand for Hospital accommodation. This becoming