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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 1919

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1919

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Table: TABLK III.—HACKNEY BOROUGH—continued.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year1919.

TABLK III.—HACKNEY BOROUGH—continued.

Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year1919.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Deaths in whole Districts at Subjoined Ages.Deaths in Public Institutions.
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 45.45 and under 65.65 and upwards.
Brought forward1,65394377711093267440535867
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs53...............7202633
Diarrhoea and Enteritis433452............222
Appendicitis and Typhlitis16......1344227
Cirrhosis of Liver91............161...
Alcoholism1...............1......1
Nephritis and Bright's Disease120.........5515435273
Puerperal Fever5............23......5
Other Accidents and Diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition5............23......6
Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth1351341..................47
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide7121118311191658
Suicides16............94731
Other Defined Diseases69887712181148140375388
Diseases ill-defined or unknown2231...4135513
Totals2,847355521031481233676821,0171,521
Sub-Entries (included in above figures)—
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis81112...12...11
Polio Myelitis........................1
Encephalitis Lethargica61......9111...2