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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 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: TABLE III. — HACKNEY BOROUGH— continued. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the year1921.

TABLE III. — HACKNEY BOROUGH— continued. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the year1921.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Deaths in whole Districts at Subjoined Ages.Deaths in Public Institutions.
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 45.45 and under 65.65 and upwards.
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs54......11112192020
Diarrhoea and Enteritis756571............240
Appendicitis and Typhlitis23...1...5762217
Cirrhosis of Liver8...............1431
Alcoholism1..................1......
Nephritis and Bright's Disease80......1...28373266
Puerperal Fever5............14......7
Other Accidents and Diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition12............111......9
Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth9794...1...2.........39
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide Suicides59 255123 18 17 620 1113 636 6
Other Defined Diseases75892117191164146408434
Diseases ill-defined or unknown11........................
Totals2.5803298058941013246549401.483
Sub-Entries (included in above figures)—
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...........................1
Polio-Myelitis...........................1
Encephalitis Lethargica3.........2......1...2