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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 VII.Mean Annual Mortality from Scarlet Fever per Million living at successive Age-Periods,1859-85.

TABLE VII.

Mean Annual Mortality from Scarlet Fever per Million living at successive Age-Periods,1859-85.

Age.Annual Deaths per Million Living.
Males.Females.Both Sexes.
0—1166413841524
1—2417038744022
2—3467644914583
3—4448143324408
4—5361235563649
0-6368134823546
5—10166716131640
10—15346381363
15—20111113112
20—25597768
25—35365847
35 and upwards131514

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The table shows that the mortality in each sex from scarlet
fever rises to a maximum in the third year of life, and then slowly
falls up to the fifth year, after which the fall is very rapid until
the twenty-fifth year of life is reached, when the mortality
becomes comparatively small. The table also shows that from
birth until the tenth year of life the mortality amongst males
from scarlet fever is greater than amongst females, the difference
becoming less accentuated as the age increased up to five years,
when the number of deaths became nearly equal. After ten years
the mortality was greatest amongst females. During the ageperiod
0—5, 3,681 deaths from scarlet fever happened amongst