Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1900
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HACKNEY DISTRICT.
Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1900.
Causes of Death. | Deaths in whole District at subjoined ages. | Deaths in Localities (at all Ages ) | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||||||||||||
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All Ages. | Under 1 | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | North Hackney. | South-east Hackney. | South-w't Hackney. | Central Hackney. | ||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Measles | 29 | 12 | 16 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | ||||
Scarlet fever | 18 | 2 | 8 | 7 | I | .. | .. | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 24 | ||||
Whooping-cough | 107 | 50 | 53 | 3 | l | .. | .. | 15 | 41 | 26 | 25 | 4 | ||||
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 62 | 11 | 33 | 16 | 1 | 1 | .. | 16 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 196 | ||||
Croup | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | •• | ||||
Fever | Typhus | |||||||||||||||
Enteric | 44 | .. | 1 | 5 | 10 | 28 | .. | 5 | 7 | 18 | 14 | 64 | ||||
Other cont'ed | ||||||||||||||||
Epidemic influenza | 83 | 1 | 3 | 1 | I | 43 | 34 | 28 | 18 | 24. | 13 | 8 | ||||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | • • | • • | •• | ||||
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Diarrhœa | 218 | 181 | 25 | .. | .. | 8 | 4 | 15 | 111 | 47 | 45 | 21 | ||||
Enteritis | 117 | 95 | 12 | .. | 2 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 40 | 23 | 35 | 13 | ||||
Puerperal fever | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | ||||
Erysipelas | 12 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | .. | 5 | ||||
Other septic diseases | 17 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | ||||
Phthisis | 223 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 179 | 8 | 35 | 63 | 71 | 54 | 95 |