Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1898
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Table B.
TABLE of POPULATION, BIRTHS, and of NEW CASES of INFECTIOUS SICKNESS , coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, in the Hackney Metropolitan District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Population at all ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 5 or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the Knowledge of thi Medical Officer of Health. | Number op such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last Census | Estimated to middle of 1898. | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||||
Smallpox. | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | Smallpox. | Scarlatina | Diphtheria | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas | |||||||||||||||||
Typhus | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North | Under 5 | .. | 42 | 26 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 31 | 14 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 112 | 57 | .. | .. | 25 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 43 | 60 | 22 | .. | .. | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||||||||||
Central (H) | Under 5 | .. | 79 | 107 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | 48 | 81 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 156 | 201 | 2 | .. | 44 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 64 | .. | 98 | 115 | .. | .. | 24 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11 | ||||||||
South West | Under 5 | .. | 69 | 83 | 7 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | 48 | 57 | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 153 | 137 | .. | .. | 68 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 61 | .. | 108 | 80 | .. | .. | 42 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | ||||||||
South East | Under 5 | .. | 124 | 65 | 4 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | .. | 85 | 37 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 219 | 145 | 1 | .. | 58 | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 99 | .. | 130 | 55 | .. | .. | 37 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 12 | ||||||||
Eastern Hospital | Under 5 | .. | 20 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 23 | 17 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
Hackney Workhouse | Under 5 | .. | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
5 upwds. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||||||||
Hackney Infirmary | Under 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
5 upwds | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
Metropolitan Hospital | Under 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
5 upwds. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
City of London Workhouse | Under 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
5 upwds | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||||
Totals | Under 5 | .. | 337 | 287 | 15 | .. | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 24 | .. | 215 | 194 | 7 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |||||||
5 upwds | .. | 665 | 559 | 4 | .. | 196 | 3 | .. | 14 | .. | 274 | .. | 398 | 274 | 1 | .. | 115 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 37 |