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 1891
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TABLE IV.
Showing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic diseases in the Hackney District during the 10 Years, 1880 to 1890, and in the Year 1891.
Diseases. | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | Annual Average of 10 Years. 1881-90 | Total Deaths in 1891 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1891 | |
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Small-pox | 225 | 13 | 19 | 210 | 86 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 0 | 0 | |
Measles | 149 | 43 | 117 | 55 | 168 | 88 | 115 | 128 | 66 | 149 | 93 | 69 | 16 | |
Scarlet Fever | 118 | 144 | 63 | 72 | 29 | 70 | 55 | 58 | 41 | 55 | 58 | 28 | 7 | |
Diphtheria | 1 | 51 | 43 | 39 | 47 | 46 | 35 | 72 | 93 | 62 | 49 | 77 | 19 | |
Whooping Cough | 70 | 182 | 56 | 157 | 85 | 123 | 136 | 134 | 52 | 182 | 117 | 138 | 33 | |
Fevers. | Typhus | 64 | 63 | 46 | 84 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Enteric | 37 | 53 | 46 | 27 | 32 | 34 | 32 | 38 | 9 | |||||
Simple continued. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Diarrhœa | 135 | 99 | 104 | 190 | 125 | 200 | 137 | 78 | 93 | 110 | 130 | 119 | 29 | |
Totals—Hackney | 762 | 595 | 448 | 807 | 589 | 585 | 525 | 505 | 378 | 493 | 561 | 470 | 211 | |
Totals—London | 13811 | 13558 | 10801 | 13629 | 13074 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 9708 | |||||
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 156 | .. |
NOTE.— Previously to 1885 all kinds of continued Fever were grouped together as "Fevers."