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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 1886

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1886

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Table: TABLE IV.Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the10Years1876to1885,and in the Year,1886.

TABLE IV.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the10Years1876to1885,and in the Year,1886.

Diseases.1876188718781879188018811S82188318841885Annual Average of 10 Years, 1876-1885Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 Years, 1876-1885Total Deaths in 1886Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886
Small-pox9217986106922513192108698.929.110.3
Measles1591318121149431175516877.122.78823.8
Scarlet Fever5758123708111814463722981.523.97019.0
Diphtheria23182319141514339472788.14612.4
Who Oping Cough12643135110141701826615785110.532.512333.3
Fevers.Fyphus446270472764634684154.716.15314.3
Enteric37
Simple continued241.1
Diarrhoea136861596717013599104190125127.137.419953.9
Totals493537627404523762595448807589577.6169.8584158.1
Totals — Loudon125651229214734122561368113811135581080113629307413040160.311121170.8

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NOTE. —Previously to 1885, all kinds of Fever were grouped together as " Fevers."