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.
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 35. | 65 and upwards | North Hackney. | Central Hackney. | South-east Hackney. | South-w't Hackney. | ||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Measles | 111 | 13 | 88 | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | 9 | 37 | 43 | 22 | 13 | ||||
Scarlet fever | 20 | 1 | 9 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 28 | ||||
Whooping-cough | 66 | 21 | 37 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 18 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 6 | ||||
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 48 | 3 | 30 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 10 | 82 | |||||
Croup | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Fever | Typhus | 35 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 15 | •• | 3 | 12 | 13 | 7 | .. | ||||
Enteric | 46 | |||||||||||||||
Other cont'ed | .. | |||||||||||||||
Epidemic influenza | 27 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | ||||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Diarrhœa | 117 | 89 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 51 | 29 | 28 | ||||
Enteritis | 23 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | ||||
Puerperal lever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | ||||
Erysipelas | 19 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 13 | ||||
Other septic diseases | 13 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | .. | 7 | ||||
Phthisis | 256 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 45 | 184 | 12 | 36 | 59 | 76 | 85 | 161 |