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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 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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small.pox, were either children who had not been vaccinated,
or adults who had not been re.vaccinated.
Measles, scarlet fever, and diphtheria produced a lower
mortality than usual, whilst whooping.cough caused an
unusually large number of deaths, and fever rather less
than in 1864 and 1865, if we allow for increase of
population. The numbers given in the above table are
those actually registered, so that if used for comparison
they should be increased, to allow for the increased
population.
Per Centages of Deaths in each Quarter, 1857 to 1866.
| Year | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUARTERS. | ||||||||||
| First | 27.5 | 27.7 | 24.4 | 31.8 | 29.2 | 27.1 | 28.3 | 28.2 | 25.7 | 24.6 |
| Second | 21.4 | 21.3 | 21.4 | 23.5 | 22.4 | 24.1 | 25.1 | 21.8 | 23.5 | 23.3 |
| Third | 24.4 | 21.8 | 27.2 | 20.0 | 24.6 | 201 | 24.5 | 22.8 | 23.6 | 27.2 |
| Fourth | 26.7 | 20.2 | 27.0 | 24.7 | 23.8 | 28.7 | 221 | 27.2 | 27.2 | 24.9 |
| Totals | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
As might be expected, from the number of deaths
from cholera and diarrhoea, the rate of death in the
third quarter of the year, was decidedly in excess of
the average. The only exception during the last ten
years having occurred in 1859, when the rate of death
was the same. The rate per 1,000 in each quarter, was
as follows: in the first three months 246, in the second
133, in the third 272, and in the fourth 249. The mortality
in the first quarter of 1865 and 1866, was, with
the exception of 1859, the smallest in the corresponding
quarters for the ten years.