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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 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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CASE OF DEATH.
AGES.
Total
under
5 years.
Total.
0
to
1
1
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
! 55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
85
85 and
upwds.
I.—Zymotic Diseases (Continued).
Diphtheria
6
45
15
2
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
51
69
Simple Continued Fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
1
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
..
1
..
7
2
2
..
..
..
..
1
18
Influenza
6
5
5
9
13
10
16
36
19
3
11
125
Other Miasmatic Disease
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
1
2
2. Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
Diarrhœa,Dysentery
40
23
1
1
..
..
1
2
1
..
1
69
76
3. Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Ague
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
4. Zoogenous Diseases.
Cowpox and Vaccination
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophohbia, Glanders)
..
• •
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
5. Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis
8
1
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
9
10
Gonorrhœa, Stricture
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
6. Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas
1
..
..
..
1
..
2
..
1
2
..
1
7
Pyæmia, Septicœmia
1
..
1
1
3
2
..
..
..
..
..
1
8
Puerperal Fever
..
..
..
3
2
2
..
..
..
..
..
..
7
II.—Parasitic Diseases.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases
3
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
3
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasites
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
••
..
III.—Dietetic Diseases.
Want of Breast Milk. Starvation
1
..
..
..
..
..
1
1
..
..
..
1
3
Scurvy
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Chronic Alcoholism
..
..
..
..
..
1
2
..
2
..
..
..
5
Delirium Tremens
..
..
..
..
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
2