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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 1890

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

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Table: SPEC IA L CAUSES OF DEATH. Summary of Table III.

SPEC IA L CAUSES OF DEATH. Summary of Table III.

No. of DeathsPercentage on Total DeathsMortality Rate on Population.
OrderClases.
I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases675..17.974.45
1. Miasmatic Diseases..41512.983.21
2. Diarrhœal ”..942.930.72
3. Malarial ”........
4.Zoogenous ” 5.Venereal ”...... 120.370.09
6.Septic ”..310.970.24
IT.—Parasitic Diseases110.030.00
TTT.—Dietetic Diseases330.090.02
IV.—Constitutional Diseases64864817.134.24
v —Developmental, diseases2052056.401.58
VI.—Local Diseases1577..49.0812.21
1. Diseasess of Nervous System..40712.723.15
2. Diseases of Organs of Special Sense 3. Diseases of Circulatory System...... 1253.900.98
4. Diseaaes of RespiratorySystem..85126.606.59
5. Diseases of Digestive System..1073.340.82
6. Disease* of Lymphatic System..30.090.02
7. Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use....40.120.03
8. Diseaess of Urinary System..611.590.39
9. Diseases of Reproductive System(a). Diseases of Organs of Generation....80.250.06
(b). Diseases of Parturition..120.370.09
10. Diseaaes of Bones and Joints..60.180.04
11. Diseaaes of Integumentary System..30.090.02
VII.—Violence106..3.310.82
1. Accident or Negligence..963.000.74
2. Homicide3. Suicide.... 100.310.07
4. ExecutionVIII.—Ill-defined and not specified Causes.. 184.. 1845.75. . 1.42
Total31993199

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In this table, 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give
a rate of 0.01; when no deaths occured, . . is inserted.
SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths from this group of diseases was 575,
nearly eighteen per cent, of the total deaths from all causes. Of
these deaths 295 were amongst young children under five years of
age, 154 of whom were infants.