Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899.

  • Bethnal Green (London, England). Parish.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 The death rate from these seven Zymotic diseases is 3.1 against 3.8 in 1898, whilst the corresponding rates for London are 2.7 in 1898 and 2.4 in 1899. Table F shews the percentage of deaths from each disease as compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths. TABLE F. Measles 22.3 per cent., or 1 in 4.4 deaths. Scarlatina 2.2 „ „ 44.6 „ Diphtheria 15.9 „ „ 6.2. „ Whooping Cough 10.9 „ „ 9.1 „ Enteric Fever 9.4 „ „ 10.5 „ Diarrhœa 39.0 „ „ 2.5 „ NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Fourteen hundred and eight notification certificates have been received during the year, and copies have been duly forwarded to the Metropolitan Asylums Board; 105 of these certificates were duplicate notifications; these latter form about seven and a half per cent. of the whole. Table M.11 (B) indicates the sub-district in which the residence of the sick person was situated, and Table G gives particulars of the numbers of cases month by month, together with the hospital admissions and discharges. In four instances there was unnecessary delay in forwarding the certificates, and the fees for the same were disallowed by the Sanitary Committee. In seven instances the certificates were returned to the medical practitioners, as the addresses of the sick persons were either incorrectly stated or were outside the parish. One case was notified as Diphtheria, and two days subsequently as Scarlet Fever by the same practitioner. The Sanitary Committee disallowed the second certificate. One medical gentleman wrote withdrawing his certificate.
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