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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
Hackney 1886
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1886
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| Radii. | Cases. | Percentage of houses in radii. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of houses infected. | Percentages of Deaths. | ||||
| 1882 | 1886 | 1884 | 1882 | 1886 | |
| Quarter mile | 6.3 | 15.5 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 25.7 |
| Between ¼ & ½.mile radii. | 12.2 | 39 6 | 15.0 | 148 | 44.3 |
| Totals within half a mile. | 18.5 | 55.1 | 21.1 | 21.1 | 70.0 |
| Between ½.mile and 1 mile radii | 29.6 | 23.4 | 31.5 | 30.5 | 17.2 |
| Outside mile radius | 51.9 | 21.5 | 47.4 | 48.4 | 12.8 |
| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
The proportion of deaths in 1882 corresponded almost precisely
with the proportion of houses in the different radii and outside
the mile radius, whilst they differed almost entirely in 1886.
The number of houses in the different radii is that ascertained
in 1884, as they were sufficiently near for all practical purposes.
The deaths for these years do not, when taken together, show
any marked effect of the Hospital on the incidence of scarlet
fever; but for 1886, if taken by itself, a deduction might have
been drawn against the Hospital. A look at the accompanying map
of deaths, however, shows a localization of the disease in different
spots or centres of infection, in a different way to that of the
small.pox map. I did not think it necessary to have a map of
the deaths alone as well as of the infected houses printed,