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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 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899

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Table: TableShowing condition of Drains of Houses in which primary cases of Infectious Disease occurred during the year 1899.

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Showing condition of Drains of Houses in which primary cases of Infectious Disease occurred during the year 1899.

DISEASE.Houses in which drains were defective.Houses in which drains were not defective.Total No. of Houses in which primary cases occurred.Per centage of Houses with defective drains.
1. Enteric Fever3416119521.1
2. Diphtheria10849059822.0
3. Scarlatina11264876017. 2
4. Erysipelas242522769.5

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34
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1890.
During the year applications were made by two owners for
certificates under this Act for 14 dwellings, containing 40 tenements.
The certificates were given after a few small repairs had been
executed.
Infectious Fevers and Drain Effluvia.—The following is
a table showing the condition of the house drains in houses where
primary cases of the specific fevers had occurred during the year.
It is only of interest in so far as it indicates to a slight extent the
relative relation of the fevers to effluvia from house drains. I have
observed this relationship during the last three years. In each I
have found the houses where diphtheria and enteric fever occurred
to have a larger proportion of defective drains than the houses in
which scarlatina and erysipelas occurred.