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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 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: Deaths Registered in the District of Hackney during the Thirteen Weeks ending Dec.29th.1860.4th QUARTER, 1860.

Deaths Registered in the District of Hackney during the Thirteen Weeks ending Dec.29th.1860.

4th QUARTER, 1860.

Causes of DeathsAges.Total.
Under 11 and under 2020 and under 4040 and under 6060 and under 8080 and above
I. Zymotic:
Small-pox.....................
Measles19............10
Scarlatina127............23
Hooping Cough57............12
Croup...1............1
Thrush..................
Diarrhoea (Bowel Complaint)3...............
Dysentery............1...4
Cholera...............
Influenza.....................
Scurvy and Purpura.....................
Ague.....................
Remittent Fever.....................
Infantile Fever......1.........1
Continued Fever..................
Puerperal Fever (Metria)...152......8
Rheumatic Fever......3.........3
Erysipelas.........1......1
Syphilis.....................
Diptheria...7............7=78
II. Dropsy, &c.
Hæmorrhage......1.........1
Dropsy12...13...7
Abscess...1............1
Ulcer..................
Fistula..................
Mortification1...............
Cancer............113
Gout.........23...5=17
III. Tubercular:
Scrofula..................
Tabes Mesenterica5...............8
Consumption...52611......42
Water on the Brain27............9=59
IV. Brain and Nerves:
Meningitis141118
Cerebritis...31...1...5
Apoplexy.........18110
palsy.........22...4
Delirium Tremens..................
Idiocy..................
Epilepsy..................
Insanity......11......2
Convulsions62............4
Disease of Brain, &c...1......318
Cord..................5=46
Carried forward26804026253200