Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1902
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Notifiable Diseases. | Cases notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages.—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upw'ds | North | C'ntr'l H. | South East | South West. | North | C'ntr'l H. | South East. | South West. | ||
Small-pox | 418 | 10 | 36 | 115 | 92 | 165 | 99 | 121 | 102 | 96 | 97 | 117 | 102 | 95 | |
Cholera | |||||||||||||||
Diphtheria | 690 | 8 | 256 | 302 | 84 | 40 | 1J6 | 207 | 181 | 156 | 101 | 147 | 131 | 120 | |
Membranous croup | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Erysipelas | 320 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 44 | 189 | 37 | 51 | 141 | 67 | 3 | 13 | 33 | 14 | |
Scarlet fever | 880 | 17 | 269 | 456 | 107 | 31 | 197 | 240 | 215 | 198 | 114 | 194 | 188 | 157 | |
Typhus fever | |||||||||||||||
Enteric fever | 187 | 13 | 47 | 61 | 66 | 27 | 59 | 57 | 44 | 12 | 37 | 46 | 27 | ||
Relapsing fever | |||||||||||||||
Continued fever | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
Puerperal fever | 16 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
Plague | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Chicken Pox | 1471 | 115 | 654 | 650 | 43 | 9 | 255 | 416 | 459 | 341 | 5 | 28 | 1 | ||
Totals | 4000 | 158 | 1255 | 1601 | 438 | 511 | 37 | 780 | 1112 | 1200 | 908 | 328 | 516 | 416 |
Isolation Hospital—Eastern Hospital, Homerton,