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Hackney 1920
Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920
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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During 1920 there were 2,202 cases of acute infectious disease
compulsorily notified in the Borough, as set out in Table II;
of these 28 were found subsequently not to be suffering from
any notifiable infectious disease, thus reducing the number of
genuine cases to 2,174. This total shows a decrease of 277 upon
those notified during 1919. The attack-rate in respect of the
acute notifiable infectious diseases for the year is 9.6 per 1,000
inhabitants.
In addition there were 410 notifications received of pulmonary
tuberculosis and 139 notifications of other forms of tuberculosis.
The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 246.
This is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of 1.09 per 1,000 living
in the Borough.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Small-pox.—There was not any notification of small-pox in
the Borough during 1920.