Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894.

  • Bethnal Green (London, England). Parish.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    registered in London during last year showed a marked decline from the number in the preceding year, and were less than half the average; of these 89 cases, 29 belonged to Marylebone, 8 to St. Pancras, 5 to Bethnal Green, 4 to Mile End Old Town, and 10 to Poplar sanitary areas. During the year under notice, 1,234 small pox patients were admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, and 16 remainedunder treatment at the end of the year. Measles showed the highest proportional fatality in Fulham, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Poplar, St. Saviour Southwark, St. George Southwark, and St. Olave Southwark ; scarlet fever in Whitechapel,. St-George-in the East, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Greenwich,, and Woolwich ; diphtheria in Paddington, Fulham, Bethnal Green,. St. George-in-the-East, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, St. George Southwark, Bermondsey, and Camberwell; whooping-cough in St. Giles, Strand, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and St. George-in-the-East fever in St. James Westminster and Strand ; and diarrhoea in St. Luke, St. George-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town, St. George Southwark, and Rotherhithe sanitary areas. The number of scarlet fever patients in the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, which had been 2,872 at the beginning of 1894, was 1,865, at the end of December last; 11,767 new cases were admitted during 1894, equal to a weekly average of 226 throughout the year. There were 4,128 admissions of diphtheria patients into these hospitals during 1894, and 521 remained under treatment at the end of the year ; and there were also 675 admissions of enteric fever patients during the same period, of whom 104 remained at the end of December last. Infant mortality in London during 1894, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered births, was equal to 143 per 1,000, and was below the mean proportion in the ten preceding years. While the rate of infant mortality did not exceed 86 in Stoke Newington, 94 in Lee and in Plumstead, 113 in Hampstead, 114 in Wandsworth, and 115 in St. George Hanover Square. It ranged upwards in the other sanitary areas to 174 in Limehouse, 179 in Strand, 180 in Holborn, 185 in St. George-in-the- East, 186 in St. George Southwark, and 210 in St. Martin-in-the- Fields.
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