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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 1892

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

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Table: TABLE V.Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, Inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years1882—1891,and in the year1892.

TABLE V.

Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, Inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years1882—1891,and in the year1892.

DISEASE.1882188318841885188618871888188918901891Annual Average of 10 years, 1892–1891.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in10 years 1882–1891.1892Proportion of Deaths to 1000 deaths in 1892.
Small Pox71992201100011.13.6851.67
Measles581283716310873124132106100102.934.1613143.90
Scarlet Fever13817410062356112040342979.326.335317.76
Diphtheria111314192126521021336946.015.2711939.88
Whooping Cough229421429214810116762113128122.440.6312240.88
Fever3432492129312121291928.69.49227.37
Diarrhœa96871378410612367959477102.634.067424.80
Total in Bethnal Green573477578463507416552452506422494.9163.62526176.26
Total in London13,55810,80113,62911,20111,12112,68410,8039,70812,2799,67511,551.911,983