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TABLE F.
Measles
29.30
percent.,
or,l in 3.43
deaths.
Scarlatina
8.85
”
„ 11.30
”
Diphtheria
22.57
”
” 4.43
”
Whooping Cough
13.72
”
”7.29
”
Typhus Fever
0.22
”
„ 462.00
”
Enteric Fever
3.78
”
„ 26.69
”
Simple Fever
0.66
”
„ 150.65
”
Diarrhœa
21.01
”
4.86
”
SMALL POX.
(Decennial average 30.7).
Only one death was ascribed to Small Pox in the whole of the
Metropolis and no case of this disease was known to have occurred
in Bethnal Green during the year 1889.
SCARLET FEVER.
(Decennial average 96.2).
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever reported to us during the
year was 203 against 282 last year, a decrease of 79. The disease
caused 40 deaths, exactly one-third of the mortality of 1888.
The 203 reported cases occurred in 169 houses; in 41 the premises
were in a fairly satisfactory condition, in an equal number
they were in a more or less unsatisfactory state, and in the remaining
87 grave sanitary defects were discovered ; in order to get these
remedied it was necessary to take legal proceedings in fifteen cases.
FEVERS.
(Decennial average 36.9).
Enteric Fever caused seventeen deaths, and Typhus one; six nonfatal
cases of simple Fever, and one of relapsing Fever were also
reported.
The total number of Fever cases known to us during the year
was 73 in 61 houses; in fourteen cases the premises were in a fairly
satisfactory condition, in 23 sanitary defects were found, and in
24 others the premises were in a very bad sanitary condition; it was
necessary in four cases to get Magistrates' orders to have the
unsanitary conditions rectified.