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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
Stoke Newington 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Parish of St. Mary]
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and that in 1897 a noteworthy increase in the mortality from the
following conditions is manifest:—Phthisis (Consumption), Diseases
of the Circulatory Organs and Nervous System, Cancer, Old Age,
Typhoid Fever, Measles, and Rheumatism. On the other hand,
there was a reduction in the mortality from Scarlet Fever, Premature
Birth, Diarrhoea, Whooping Cough, and Puerperal Fever.
Much of the increase in Cancer mortality of late years is
doubtless due to the improvement in diagnosis which has taken
place; the fact that the mean duration of life life been extended of
recent years would further account for a very small part of such
increase—for if more people now live to the higher age periods, more
will experience those degenerative changes which set in as age
advances, one of which is cancer.
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza) in the Year 1897.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Group. | Typhoid Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Influenza. | Erysipelas. | Total. | Rate to every 1,000 persons. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | .. | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 12 | 0.35 |
| Second „ | .. | 5 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | .. | 19 | 0.56 |
| Third ., | .. | 4 | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 18 | .. | .. | 30 | 0.88 |
| Fourth ,. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 16 | 0.47 |
| 1 | 19 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 77 | 2.28 | |
| 1896 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 2.52 |
Zymotic Mortality.—Included in the Zymotic mortality are the
deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, viz, Small-pox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, "Fever"
(including Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever, and Simple Continued