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Hackney 1859

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TABLE.

Deaths Registered in the District of Hackney during the Thirteen Weeks ending Saturday, April 2nd , 1859.

Causes of Death.	Ages.						Total.
Causes of Death.	Under 1	and under 20	20 and under 40	40 and under 6o	60 and under 80	80 and above	Total.
I. Zymotic:
Smallpox	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
Measles	..	6	..	..	..	..	6
Scarlatina	3	14	..	..	..	..	17
Hooping Cough	2	12	..	..	..	..	14
Croup	..	2	..	..	..	..	2
Thrush	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
Diarrhoea (Bowel Complaint)	1	1	..	..	..	..	2
Dysentery	..	..	..	..	2
Cholera	..	..	..	..	..
Influenza	..	..	..	..	..	2	6
Scurvy and Purpura	..	..	..	..	..	..
Ague	..	..	..	..	..	..
Remittent Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..
Infantile Fever	..	..		..	..	..
Typhus Fever	..	3	3	1	1	..	8
Puerperal Fever (Metria)	..	..		..	..	..	..
Rheumatic Fever	..	..	3	..	..	..	7
Erysipelas (Rose)	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Syphilis	1	..	••	..	..	..	1
Noma (canker)	..	..	••	..	..	..	..
Diptheria	1	7	••	..	1	..	9—78
II. Dropsy, &c.:
Hæmorrhage		..	..	..	1	..	1
Dropsy		..	1	..	2	..	3
Abscess		..	..	..	1	..	1
Ulcer		..	..	..	..	..	..
Fistula		..	..	..	..	..	..
Mortification		..	..	2	1	1	4
Cancer		..	1	2	2	..	5—14
Gout	..	..	..	..	..	..
III. Tubercular:
Scrofula	..	..	..	1	..	..	1
Tabes Mesenterica	5	7		..	..	..	12
Phthisis (Consumption)	..	4	19	6	..	..	29
Hydrocephalus (Water on Brain)	1	6	••	••	..	..	7—49
IV. Brain and Nerves :
Meningitis	3	2	..	••	1	••	6
Cerebritis	..	I	..	1	2	..	4
Apoplexy	..	..	1	4	6	••	12
Palsy (Paralysis)	..	..	..	3	7	4	14
Delirium Tremens	..				..	..	..
Epilepsy	..	1	1	1	..	..	3
Insanity	..	..	..	1	1	..	2
Convulsions	15	2	..	..	..	..	17
Disease of Brain, &c.	..	2	..	1	4	••	7—64
Carried forward	33	76	29	23	37	7	205