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 V.
Deaths in Hackney, 1871.
causes of death. | Totals. | Per Centages. | |
---|---|---|---|
Deaths fiom— | 1871. | 1871. | 10 years' average. |
Zymotic (Epidemic) diseases | 800 | 28.4 | 20.8 |
Diathetic, &c., disease | 114 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
Tubercular diseases | 438 | 15.6 | 16.6 |
Diseases of the Nervous system | 299 | 10.6 | 13.0 |
,, „ Organs of Circulation | 160 | 5.7 | 5.2 |
„ „ Respiratory Organs | 441 | 15.7 | 16.3 |
„ „ Digestive and Urinarv Organs | 161 | 5.7 | 6.5 |
,, „ Skin and Joints | 10 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
Premature Birth and Atrophy | 161 | 5.7 | 4.9 |
Childbirth, &c | 17 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
Old Age | 144 | 5.1 | 7.0 |
Violence | 69 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
Totals | 2814 | 100 | 100 |
The deaths from the seven diseases which cause the greatest
mortality in the epidemic class are Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fever, and Diarrhoea.
The total number was very large, viz. 751, the largest in any
previous year having been 592, which corrected for increase of
population would be 639, so that the excess in 1871 was no less
than 11.2.
Table VI.
1800-71—Deaths from Seven Epidemic Diseases. Hackney.
1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | ° | |
47.0 | 49.1 | 49.5 | 50.3 | 48.5 | 50.3 | 49.8 | 48.6 | 51.6 | 49.5 | 48.7 | 48:7 | |
Small Pox | 2 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 12 | 6 | 31 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 490 |
Measles | 43 | 36 | 32 | 37 | 79 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 35 | 64 | 40 | 25 |
Scarlet Fever | 61 | 58 | 83 | 125 | 64 | 98 | 68 | 19 | 49 | 217 | 181 | 85 |
Diphtheria | 11 | 24 | 27 | 34 | 15 | 22 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 8 |
Whooping Cough | 51 | 62 | 56 | 28 | 48 | 56 | 89 | 72 | 44 | 102 | 39 | 76 |
Fever | 38 | 55 | 89 | 49 | 77 | 75 | 76 | 63 | 54 | 60 | 51 | 34 |
Diarrhœa | 19 | 55 | 25 | 60 | 71 | 125 | 162 | 75 | 120 | 97 | 115 | 123 |
Totals | 228 | 291 | 314 | 375 | 366 | 404 | 464 | 317 | 320 | 592 | 151 | 751 |