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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 1890

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1890

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Table: TABLE IV.Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the 10 years, 1879 to 1888, and in the year 1889.

TABLE IV.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Hackney District during the 10 years, 1879 to 1888, and in the year 1889.

Diseases.1880188118821883188418851886188718881889Annual Average of 10 Years. 1880-89Total Deaths in 1890Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1890
Small-pox6922513192108610006200
Measles21149431175516888115128669514936.6
Scarlet Fever8111814463722970555841735513.5
Diphtheria1415143394746357293446215.2
Whooping Cough1417018256157851231361345211518244.9
Fevers.Typus27646346841–––1000
Enteric375346273248348.3
Simple continued24180110
Diarrhœa17013599104190125200137789313311027.0
Totals—Hackney523762595448807589585525505378571593145.5
Totals—London13681138111355810801136291307411121126841080397081228712279134

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