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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 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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This latter corresponded with the death returns which were as follows in Hackney:—
| For the Week ending | Deaths from Scarlet Fever. | For the week ending | Deaths from Scarlet Fever. | For the week ending | Deaths from Scarlet Fever. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |
This epidemic has been remarkable not only for its severity
but also for its unusual continuance, as the deaths from scarlet
fever ordinarily reach the highest point about the end of
October or early in November; but it will be noticed that
whilst they were less in the week ending November 20th, they
rose rapidly the next week, and continued at a very high point
until the last week of the year.
Greatly, however, as this district has suffered, yet the disease
has not been so fatal here as in the adjoining localities. In the
whole of London the mortality was at the rate of 183 per
100,000 inhabitants; in Hackney, of 231, in Shoreditch, of
242, in Bethnal Green, of 365, in Poplar, of 326, in Whitechapel,
of 253, in St. George's-in-the-East, of 314, in Stepney,
of 292, in Mile End Old Town, of 250, and in Poplar, of 326.
The mortality in the south districts was also very high, the rate
in St. Olave's, Southwark, having been 277; in Bermondsey