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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 I.
| Radii. | Number of houses infected. | Percentages of houses infected to total cases. | Mean No. of houses infected to total cases. | Percentages of houses in radii. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882 | 1886 | 1887 | 1882 | 1886 | 1887 | |||
| 1882-6-7 | 1884 | |||||||
| Quarter mile | 18 | 44 | 39 | 6'3 | 15.5 | 13.3 | 11.7 | 6.1 |
| Between ¼ & ½-mile | 35 | 112 | 67 | 12.2 | 39.6 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 15.0 |
| Totals within ½-mile | 53 | 156 | 106 | 18.5 | 55.l | 36.2 | 36.6 | 21.1 |
| Between ½ & 3/4-mile | 36 | 35 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Between 3/4 & 1-mile | 49 | 31 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals between ½ & 1 -mile | 85 | 66 | 77 | 29.6 | 23.4 | 26.3 | 26.4 | 31.5 |
| Outside one mile radius | 149 | 61 | 110 | 51.9 | 21.5 | 37.5 | 37.0 | 47.4 |
| Totals | 287 | 283 | 293 | 100 | 100 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100 |
A comparison between the number of houses in the different
radii, and the cases during the years 1882, 1886, and 1887
taken altogether,the hospital being the centre,affords good ground
for the conclusion that the hospital has been prejudicial in
causing an increase of the disease in its vicinity. The reasons
are, that although in 1882 there were only 6.3 per cent. of all
the houses known to have been infected in the district, against
6.1 of total houses in the quarter-mile radius, yet in 1886 and
1887 there were 15.5 and 13.5 per cent. of infected houses
amongst all the houses in which these cases occurred. That
between the quarter and half-mile radii, which contain 15 per