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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Causes of Death. | Deaths in whole District at subjoined ages. | Deaths in Localities (at all Ages ) | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||||||||||||
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All Ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | North Hackney. | South-east Hackney. | South-w't Hackney. | Central Hackney. | ||||||
Small-pox | 71 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 31 | 21 | 22 | 17 | |||||||
Measles | 74 | 17 | 54 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 31 | 17 | 15 | |||||||
Scarlet fever | 14 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | ||||||
Whooping-cough | 87 | 33 | 51 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 35 | 23 | 2 | ||||||
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 60 | 3 | 37 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 12 | 109 | ||||||
Croup | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Typhus | ||||||||||||||||
Enteric | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 33 | |||||||
Other cont'ed | ||||||||||||||||
Epidemic influenza .. | 44 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 12 | |||||
Cholera | ||||||||||||||||
Plague | ||||||||||||||||
Diarrhoea | 83 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 52 | 27 | 22 | |||||||
Enteritis | 38 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 4 | |||||
Puerperal fever | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
Erysipelas | 16 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | ||||||||
Other septic diseases | 22 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 | ||||
Phthisis | 304 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 47 | 220 | 13 | 48 | 73 | 97 | 86 | 135 |