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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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1,000,000 males against 3,482 deaths amongst the same number
of females. These differenees led the Registrar-General to
further enquire whether they were dependent on greater severity
of the disease amongst males under five years, or if males are
more subject to the disease than females. He therefore had
the following table constructed from cases occurring in hospitals
for ten years.

Table: TABLE VIII.Case Mortality at different Ages.—Deaths per1,000Cases of Scarlet Fever in Hospitals,1874-85.

TABLE VIII.

Case Mortality at different Ages.—Deaths per1,000Cases of Scarlet Fever in Hospitals,1874-85.

Age.Males.Females.Both Sexes
0—1395442419
1—2384316365
2—3255226210
3—4184174179
4—5130112121
0—5241217229
5—1010697101
10—15565354
15—20403437
20—25393235
25—35754359
35 and upwards856575

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The Registrar-General in discussing this table pointed out
the striking difference between the mortality of males and
females, which shows how much greater the risk of death from
an attack at every age period, except that of 0-1, is to the male
than to the female sex. The death rate per 1000 attacks of the
disease in males under five years was 241, and of females 217.