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Hackney 1904
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1904
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TABLE OF DEATHS—continued.
| AGES | Under 1 year. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45. | 45 to 55. | 55 to G5 | 65 to 75. | 75 to 85. | 85 and upwards. | AllAgos. |
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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS OR ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
During the year ending 31st December, 1904, the notifications of
infectious disease received numbered 2,429, but of these 59 were subsequently
found not to be genuine cases, thus leaving a total of 2,375
cases for the year. This is equivalent to an attack rate of 105 per
1,000 of the population. The deaths from infectious disease, both
notifiable and non notifiable, during the same period amounted to
523, which is equivalent to a mortality rate of 2.3 per 1,000 living
persons.
A. NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Small-Pox.—During the year 1904 there were 13 cases of small-pox
notified in the borough, 5 of which were afterwards found not to be
cases of that disease, thus leaving a total of 8 genuine cases of small-pox.
No death from this disease was recorded during the year 1904 in
Hackney.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.—The number of cases of this disease
notified in the Borough during the year was 863, but of this number
14 were afterwards diagnosed not to be this disease; so that the total
genuine cases notified during 1904 was 849. This is an increase of 213