Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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TABLE.
Deaths Registered in the District of Hackney during the Thirteen Weeks ending Saturday, June 29th, 1861.
Causes of Death. | Ages. | Total. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 | 1 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and above | ||
I. Zymotic. | |||||||
Small pox | |||||||
Measles | 6 | 6 | |||||
Scarlatina | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Hooping cough | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||||
Croup | • • | ||||||
Thrush | |||||||
Diarrhœa (Bowel Complaint) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
Dysentery | 1 | 1 | |||||
Cholera | |||||||
Influenza | |||||||
Ague | |||||||
Remittent Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
Infantile Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||
Continued Fever | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||
Rheumatic Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||
Erysipelas (Rose) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
Syphilis | 2 | 2 | |||||
Noma (Canker) | |||||||
Diphtheria | 5 | 1 | 6—56 | ||||
II. Dropsy, &c.: | |||||||
Hæmorrhage | 1 | 1 | |||||
Dropsy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
Abcess | |||||||
Ulcer | |||||||
Fistula | |||||||
Mortification | 1 | 1 | |||||
Cancer | 4 | 9 | 13 | ||||
Gout | —21 | ||||||
III. Tubercular: | |||||||
Scrofula | 1 | 1 | |||||
Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 7 | 9 | ||||
Phthisis (Consumption) | 12 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 52 | ||
Hydrocephalus (Water on Brain) | 1 | 11 | 12—74 | ||||
IV. Brain and Nerves: | |||||||
Inflammation of Brain, &c. | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
Apoplexy | 4 | 6 | 10 | ||||
Palsy (Paralysis) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Delirium Tremens | |||||||
Chorea | |||||||
Epilepsy | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
Insanity | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Convulsions | 14 | 4 | 18 | ||||
Disease of Brain, &c. | |||||||
Spinal Cord | — 1 | ||||||
Carried forward | 32 | 73 | 25 | 39 | 32 | 1 | 202 |