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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 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: TABLE OF DEATHSREGISTERED IN THE HACKNEY DISTRICT, DURING THE YEAR 1870.

TABLE OF DEATHS

REGISTERED IN THE HACKNEY DISTRICT, DURING THE YEAR 1870.

AGESUnder 1 year1 to 55 to1515to2525to3535to4545to5555to6565to7575to8585to9595 and upwardTotal.
CLASS 1.—Order 1.
Small Pox2432212...............16
Measles6259...........................40
Scarlatina119171521..................181
Diphtheria134...1.....................9
Croup617..............................23
Whooping Cough1821..............................39
Enteric Fever11248431211......37
Typhus Fever...31423......1.........14
Erysipelas72.........2215.........19
Metria.......................................
Carbuncle...• • •.................................
Influenza.......................................
Dysentery............2...1...............3
Diarrhœa9014...1......2152......115
Choleraic Diarrhœa152..................1......18
Cholera1......1........................2
Remittent Fever...2..............................2
Rheumatism......2211163.........16
-534
Order 2.
Syphilis41..............................5
-5
Order 3.
Privation.......................................
Want of breast milk6.................................6
Purpura and Scurvy.......................................
AlcoholDel.Tremen.............113...............5
Intmprnce........................................
-11
Order 4.
Thrush.......................................
-
CLASS 2.—Order 1.
Gout..................1...2.........3
Dropsy...11...111431......13
Cancer......1...2916201652...71
Mortification11...12......2...11...9
-96
Order 2.
Scrofula21...1........................4
Tabes Mesenterica3822...1.........1............62
Phthisis3613618051442642......290
Water on the brain2426411.....................56
-412
CLASS 3.—Order 1.
Inflammn. of Brain6952...64263......43
Apoplexy...11...279181892...67
Paralysis............1591222162...67
Insanity............11...2............4
Epilepsy1133151...21......18
Convulsions6321..............................84
Brain disease............114...............6
Spinal Cord2......2...............1......5
-294
Carried forward30828612295107981019788437...1352