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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 1889

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

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease, 1889, A.D.

Cases of Infectious Disease, 1889, A.D.

English Cholera.Relapsing Fever.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Simple Fever.Erysipelas.Admitted.Discharged.Died.Remaiming.
January......21....10....Nil.2213648
February......73..6....913341
March......42..1....610..36
April......32..1....610130
May......42..1....316117
June......39..1....118119
July......923..1....166623
August......1724..2....227731
September......3324..4....2611619
October1....2423..7....2213642
November..1..43269203241119232
December......2014312310910229
Totals110197162126561401601364029

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INQUESTS.
The Coroner bold 208 inquests, 7.6 per cent. of the total mortality,
or one in every 12.43 deaths. The violent deaths numbered 81,
three and a quarter per cent. of the total deaths. Only two deaths
wero uncertified.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from this group of diseases, exclusive of Phthisis,
were 625, nearly one-fourth of the total mortality from all causes,
and corresponded to a rate of 4.77 per thousand population. The
mortality from pulmonary diseases has been decreasing for the last
three years.