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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 1887

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1887

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Table: TABLE VI.Shouting the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the10 years,1877to1886,and in the year1887.

TABLE VI.

Shouting the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the

10 years,1877to1886,and in the year1887.

Diseases.1877187818791880188118821883188418851886Annual Average of 10 Years, 1877-1886Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 Years, 1877-1886Total Deaths in 1887Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1887
Small-pox179861069225131921086187.825.200
Measles9131812114943117551688884.424.211530.6
Scarlet Fever5812370811181446372297082.823.85515.2
Diptheria18231914151433947463018.6359.3
Whooping Cough43135110141701825615785123110.831.813636.3
Fevers.Typhus6270472764634684—56.016.1-12.6
Enteric375346
Simple continued.241
Diarrhoea861596717013599104190125200133.538.313736.5
Totals537627404523762595448807589585585.4168.0525140.4
Totals-London1229214734122561368113811135581080113629130741112112866161.412684154.3

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