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 1903
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HACKNEY DISTRICT.
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 | ||||||
North | C'ntr'l H. | South East W. | South West. | North | C'ntr'l | South East. | South West. | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upw'ds | ||||||||||
Small-pox | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Cholera | |||||||||||||||
Diphtheria | 533 | 9 | 189 | 239 | 57 | 39 | 61 | 144 | 222 | 106 | 40 | 115 | 174 | 87 | |
Membranous croup | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Erysipelas | 280 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 44 | 157 | 36 | 30 | 68 | 124 | 58 | 2 | 12 | 38 | 10 |
Scarlet fever | 676 | 7 | 197 | 389 | 71 | 12 | 155 | 217 | 153 | 151 | 98 | 192 | 143 | 140 | |
Typhus fever | |||||||||||||||
Enteric fever | 272 | 5 | 88 | 109 | 70 | 29 | 94 | 99 | 50 | 19 | 71 | 86 | 43 | ||
Relapsing fever | |||||||||||||||
Continued fever | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Puerperal fever | 21 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||
Plague | |||||||||||||||
Chicken Pox | 46 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Totals | 1850 | 28 | 432 | 766 | 287 | 300 | 37 | 285 | 546 | 644 | 375 | 161 | 397 | 452 | 284 |
Isolation Hospital—Eastern Hospital, Homerton. |