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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and Diarrhœa, 52 weeks in each years.
1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | ||||||
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50°3 | 49°8 | 51°6 | 49°5 | 48°7 | 48°7 | 50°7 | 49°1 | 49°4 | |||||||
Small Pox | 6 | 31 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 400 | 9 | 5 | ||||||
Measles | 22 | 26 | 15 | 35 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 59 | 28 | 68 | |||||
Scarlet Fever | 93 | 68 | 49 | 49 | 247 | 85 | 51 | 27 | 97 | ||||||
Diptheria | 22 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 10 | ||||||
Whooping Cough | 56 | 89 | 72 | 44 | 102 | 39 | 76 | 97 | 81 | 52 | |||||
Fever | 75 | 76 | 63 | 54 | 60 | 51 | 34 | 50 | 53 | 45 | |||||
Diarrhœa | 125 | 162 | 75 | 120 | 97 | 115 | 123 | 115 | 161 | 102 | |||||
Totals— Hackney | 404 | 464 | 317 | 320 | 592 | 451 | 751 | 490 | 380 | 379 | |||||
Totals for London | 14,272 | 14,761 | 11,660 | 14,638 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,729 | 11,170 | 11,230 | |||||
Annual Average No. of Deaths 1865–1874 | |||||||||||||||
10,000 | |||||||||||||||
Small Pox | 62 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 2 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
Measles | 38 | 1.5 | 3.4 | 61 | 4.3 | ||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 96 | 3.9 | 8.1. | 78 | 5.5 | ||||||||||
Diptheria | 13 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 21 | |||||||||||
Whooping Cough | 71 | 2.9 | 6.3 | 113 | 8.0 | ||||||||||
Fever | 56 | 2.3 | 5.3 | 58 | 4.1 | ||||||||||
Diarrhœa | 119 | 4.9 | 10.4 | 8.2 | |||||||||||
Hackney | 455 | 18.5 | 40.2 | 449 | 31.6 | ||||||||||
London | 14.386 | 19.0 | 45.9 |