Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 Saturday, June 29th, 1861.
| Causes of Death. | Ages. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80 | 80 and above | ||
| I. Zymotic. | |||||||
| Small pox | |||||||
| Measles | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Scarlatina | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Hooping cough | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Croup | • • | ||||||
| Thrush | |||||||
| Diarrhœa (Bowel Complaint) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Cholera | |||||||
| Influenza | |||||||
| Ague | |||||||
| Remittent Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Infantile Fever | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Continued Fever | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Rheumatic Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Erysipelas (Rose) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Syphilis | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Noma (Canker) | |||||||
| Diphtheria | 5 | 1 | 6—56 | ||||
| II. Dropsy, &c.: | |||||||
| Hæmorrhage | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Dropsy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Abcess | |||||||
| Ulcer | |||||||
| Fistula | |||||||
| Mortification | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Cancer | 4 | 9 | 13 | ||||
| Gout | —21 | ||||||
| III. Tubercular: | |||||||
| Scrofula | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 7 | 9 | ||||
| Phthisis (Consumption) | 12 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 52 | ||
| Hydrocephalus (Water on Brain) | 1 | 11 | 12—74 | ||||
| IV. Brain and Nerves: | |||||||
| Inflammation of Brain, &c. | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
| Apoplexy | 4 | 6 | 10 | ||||
| Palsy (Paralysis) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Delirium Tremens | |||||||
| Chorea | |||||||
| Epilepsy | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Insanity | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Convulsions | 14 | 4 | 18 | ||||
| Disease of Brain, &c. | |||||||
| Spinal Cord | — 1 | ||||||
| Carried forward | 32 | 73 | 25 | 39 | 32 | 1 | 202 |