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.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years 1881—1890,
and in the year 1891.
DISEASE.
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Annual
Average of
10 years.
1881—1890.
Proportion of
Deaths to 1000
Deaths in 10 years
1881—1890
1891
Proportion
of Deaths to
1000 deaths
in 1891.
Small Pox
118
7
1
99
22
0
1
1
0
0
24.9
8.33
0
0.00
Measles
185
58
128
37
163
108
73
124
132
106
111.4
37.26
100
30.47
Scarlet Fever
82
138
174
100
62
35
61
120
40
34
84.6
28.29
29
8.84
Diphtheria
9
11
13
14
19
21
26
52
102
133
40;0
13.36
69
21.03
Whooping Cough
102
229
42
142
92
148
101
167
62
113
119.8
40.07
128
39.00
Fever
59
34
32
49
21
29
31
21
21
29
32.6
10.90
19
5.79
Diarrhœa
107
96
87
137
84
166
123
67
95
94
105.6
35.32
77
23.46
Total in Bethnal Green
662
573
477
578
463
507
416
552
452
509
518.9
173.53
422
128.59
Total in London
13,811
13,558
10,801
13,629
11,261
11,121
12,684
10,803
9,708
12,279
11965.5
9675