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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 1889

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1889

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Table: TABLE IV.Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the10years,1879to1888,and in the year1889.

TABLE IV.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the10years,1879to1888,and in the year1889.

Diseases.1879188018811882188318841885188618871888Annual Average of 10 Years, 1879-1888To t Deaths in 1889Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1889
Small-pox106922613192108610063.300
812114943117551688811512877.56619.7
Scarlet Fever708111814463722970555876.04112.2
Diphtheria191415143394746357236.79327.7
Whooping Cough110141701825616785123136134119.46215.5
Fevers.Typhus4727646346841———19.8
Enteric3753462749.432
Simple continued.24l83.70
Diarrhoea671701359910419012520013778130.5???27.7
Totals—Hackney404523762595448807589585525505556.5???112.6
Totals— London122561368113811135581080113629130741112112684108031270410803124.7

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HOTE— Previously to 1885 all kinds of continued Fever were grouped together as "Fevers,"