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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hackney 1920

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920

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The causes of death are set out in the following table :—
INFANT MORTALITY.

Table: 1920. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under1Year of age.

1920. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under1Year of age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.4 weeks and under 3 months.3 months and under 1 months.6 months and under 9 months.9 months and under 12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
Small-pox..............................
Chicken-pox..............................
Measles...............2241220
Scarlet Fever..............................
Whooping Cough......134378527
Diphtheria and Croup........................33
Erysipelas...............11......2
Tuberculous Meningitis.........11...21...4
Abdominal Tuberculosis...............1.........1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1...1...2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............2...1...3
Convulsions13127363120
Laryngitis.........11............1
Bronchitis1111420102541
Pneumonia (all forms)112151923231585
Diarrhœa......1...125...19
Enteritis...............4103219
Gastritis......1...12.........3
Syphilis...111342......9
Rickets..............................
Suffocation (overlying)31......421......7
Injury at Birth3.........3............3
Atelectasis141......151.........16
Congenital Malformations1221116732...28
Premature Birth61613585113......99
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus7231131095...37
Other Causes7241148119446
Total120202918177103956248485

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Senile Mortality.—The deaths which occurred in Hackney at
65 years of age and upwards during 1920 numbered 866, and of
these 407 were between the ages of 65 and 75 years, 363 between
75 and 85 years, and 96 at 85 and upwards. The annual mortality
rate of persons at 65 years and upwards is 3.8 per 1,000
inhabitants.