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Bethnal Green 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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K2 11 (B).
Table Of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sicknes3, reported to the Melical Officer of Health during the Year 1892, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Bethnal Green, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities, as required by the Local Government Board.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics. Public Institutions shown as separate Localities. | Population of aU Ages. | Registered Births. | Now Cases of Sickness in each Locality reported to the Medical Officer of Health. | Number of such case* removed from iheir homes In the several Localities for treatment tn Isolation Hospital*. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census, 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1882. | Ages under 5 or over 5. | Small Pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria & Meonbra nous Croup. | fevers. | Erysipelas. | Small Pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | FEVERS | |||
| Enterie or. Typhoid. | Puerperal. | Entorie or Typhoid. | ||||||||||||
| North, Sub-District | 51,520 | 51,250 | 2052 | Under 5. 5 and upward. | 5 | 112 | 55 | 7 | .. | 9 | 2 | 52 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 219 | 138 | 47 | 6 | 111 | 16 | 92 | 27 | 24 | |||||
| South, Sub-District | 33,491 | 31,175 | 1266 | Under 5. 5 and upward. | .. | 112 | 78 | .. | .... | 5 | 47 | 27 | .. | |
| 10 | 126 | 135 | 27 | 1 | 69 | 7 | 69 | 30 | 13 | |||||
| East, Sub-District | 44,123 | 44,615 | 1593 | Under 5. 5 and upward. | 1 | 128 | 70 | 1 | .. | 5 | 1 | 43 | 22 | |
| 6 | 226 | 89 | 18 | 5 | 72 | 6 | 78 | 13 | 5 | |||||
| Workhouse | .. | .. | .. | Under 5. 5 and upward. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Mildmay Hospital | .. | .. | Under 5. 5 and upward. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||||||||
| Victoria Park Hospital | .. | .. | Under 5. 5 and upward. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
| .. | .. | .. | ... . | 1 | .. | .. | ||||||||
| Total | 129,134 | 127,040 | 4911 | Under 5. 5 and upward. | 6 | 352 | 203 | 8 | .. | 19 | S | 142 | 61 | 1 |
| 35 | 572 | 361 | 94 | 12 | 312 | 30 | 240 | 71 | 44 | |||||
PUERPERAL SEPTICEMIA, 1892.
No. of cases reported and visited 12
In South District (Lapworth's) l case
, ,, East ,, (Weston's) 5 ,,
„ North ,, (Foot's) 6 ,,
TYPHUS FEVER (no case reported).
RELAPSING FEVER (no case reported).
ERYSIPELAS, 1892.
No. of cases reported during the year 331
Inspoctor Lapworth's District 94 cases
„ Weston's ,, 87 „
,, Foot's „ 150 „
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from Lung diseases, exclusive of Phthisis and Pulmonary
Influenza were 759, over twenty per cent, of the total
mortality from all causes, and corresponding to a rate of 5 97 per
thousand population at all ages. As far as possible I have excluded
Influenza, but probably many of the Bronchitis and Pneumonia
deaths were due to this disease, though the statement did not
appear on the medical certificate. The Influenza outbreak has now
lasted three years, with an annual exacerbation. In 1892, this
occurred during the first two months of tho year. Table "H"
separates the respiratory mortality into quarters, shows the age
distribution, and also the rainfall and mean temperature for each
period of three months.