Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN SANITARY DISTRICT.
TABLE V.
DISEASE. | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1888 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | Annual Average of 10 years. 1880—1889 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 yrs. 1880—1889. | 1890 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1890. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 51 | 118 | 7 | 1 | 99 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 30.0 | 10.14 | 0 | 0.0 |
Measles | 34 | 185 | 58 | 128 | 37 | 163 | 108 | 73 | 124 | 132 | 104.2 | 35.23 | 106 | 33.13 |
Scarlet Fever | 114 | 82 | 138 | 174 | 100 | 62 | 35 | 61 | 120 | 40 | 92.6 | 31.31 | 34 | 10.63 |
Diphtheria | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 102 | 27.9 | 9.45 | 133 | 41.58 |
Whooping Cough | 140 | 102 | 229 | 42 | 142 | 92 | 148 | 101 | 167 | 62 | 122.5 | 41.41 | 113 | 35.32 |
Fever | 37 | 59 | 34 | 32 | 49 | 21 | 29 | 31 | 21 | 21 | 33.4 | 11.29 | 29 | 9.06 |
Diarrhœa | 169 | 107 | 96 | 87 | 137 | 84 | 166 | 123 | 67 | 95 | 113.1 | 38.24 | 94 | 29.39 |
Total in Bethnal Green | 557 | 662 | 573 | 477 | 578 | 463 | 507 | 416 | 552 | 452 | 523.7 | 177.05 | 509 | 159.12 |
Total in London | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,558 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 11,261 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 9,708 | 121.05 | 149 | 12,279 | 134.0 |