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Hackney 1858

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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TABLE I.

Deaths registered in the District of Hackney during the Thirteen Weeks ending July3, 1858.

Causes of Death. .Ages.Total
Under 1*0 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 6060 and under 80.80 and above .
I. Zymotic :
Small.pox.....................
Measles518............18
Scarlatina...6............6
Hooping Cough1219............19
Croup.....................
Thrush.....................
Diarrhoea (Bowel Complaint)46............7
Dysentery.....................
Cholera.....................
Influenza.....................
Scurvy and Purpura.....................
Ague.....................
Remittent Fever.....................
Infantile Fever44............4
Typhus Fever153.........14
Puerperal Fever (Metria)......1.........1
Rheumatic Fever.....................
Erysipelas (Rose)11............1
Syphilis22............2
Noma (Canker).....................
Diptheria...5............5 77
II. Dropsy, &c.
Haemorrhage11............1
Dropsy...••144...9
Abscess..................
Ulcer.....................
Fistula............1...1
Mortification............1...I
Cancer.........52...7
Gout..................19
III. Tubercular Diseases :
Scrofula.........1......1
Tabes Mesenterica45............5
Phthisis (Consumption)...11205......36
Hydrocephalus (Water on Brain)211............11=53
IV. Brain and Nerve.
Meningitis14...1......5
Cerebritis11............1
Apoplexy......132...6
Palsy (Paralysis).........2518
Delirium Tremens............1...1
Epilepsy..................
Tetanus.....................
Insanity......1.........1
Convulsions57............7
Disease of Brain, &c...2............3
„ Spinal Cord............1.....=32
Carried forward531082723212181

* These deaths in the first column are incorporated with those in the second.