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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: Scarlet Fever Returns for Ten Years—1877to 1880.

Scarlet Fever Returns for Ten Years—1877to 1880.

Year.Number of cases of Scarlet Fever Reported.Deaths from Scarlet Fever.Total Deaths from all Causes (corrected)Estimated Population of Bethnal Green.
1877No Information.932886124,430
1878„682951125,110
1879„763022125,790
1880 ............„1142883126,470
1881234823054127,006
18822081323094127,685
18832841743072128,370
18842641003009129,055
18851.11622850129,055
188690353040129,895
Average of ten years.202932986127,286
1887266612917129,895

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FEVERS
(Decennial average, 41.6).
The various forms of continued Fever caused 31 deaths, a
number almost identical with that recorded in the previous year.
Enteric Fever caused 28 deaths, and Typhus three.
Three hundred and twenty-three cases of the various forms of
Fever, including Scarlet Fever, were reported to us during the
year; 206 were removed to Hospital, of those 30 died, 118 reooverod,
and 73 were still under treatment at the end of the year.
In the following Table, is shewn the number and kind of the
various infectious cases, reported to us during the year, month
by month, and the termination of the Hospital cases is also
indicated.