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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 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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considering that the birth-rate is higher than it used to be. There
were 406 deaths or 17.8 per cent. from tubercular diseases, 312
or 13.7 per cent. from diseases of the nervous system, and 134
or 5.9 per cent. from diseases of the heart and great vessels.
The deaths from affections of the lungs were considerably less
than before, as 328 or 14.4 per cent. only were registered against
16.3 per cent. in 10 years, and 16.0 in 1867. There were 157
deaths or 6.9 per cent. against 4.9 per cent. registered from
premature birth, and 180 or 7.9 per cent. from old age against
7.6 per cent. The deaths from violence vary perhaps as little
as any, 80 or 3.5 per cent. having been registered against an
average of 3.4 per cent. This is very singular, as it shows that
the causes of death from violence are but little altered by the
changes in the social and sanitary condition of the population.
TABLE VI.
1857-68.—Deatiis from Seven Epidemic Diseases. Hackney.
| 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 18g3 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51°0 | 49°2 | 50°7 | 47°0 | 49°4 | 49°5 | 50°3 | 48°5 | 50°3 | 49°8 | 48°6 | 51°6 | |
| Small-Pox | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 12 | 6 | 31 | 27 | 6 |
| Measles | 22 | 36 | 10 | 43 | 36 | 32 | 37 | 79 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 35 |
| Scarlet Fever | 41 | 76 | 82 | 64 | 58 | 83 | 125 | 64 | 98 | 68 | 49 | 49 |
| Diphtheria | ... | 27 | 27 | 11 | 24 | 27 | 34 | 15 | 22 | 12 | 16 | 14 |
| WhoopingCough | 57 | 64 | 36 | 51 | 62 | 56 | 28 | 48 | 56 | 89 | 72 | 42 |
| Diarrhœa | 69 | 50 | 87 | 19 | 55 | 25 | 60 | 71 | 125 | 162 | 75 | 120 |
| Fever | 59 | 51 | 55 | 38 | 55 | 89 | 49 | 77 | 75 | 76 | 63 | 54 |
| Totals | 249 | 304 | 302 | 228 | 291 | 314 | 374 | 366 | 404 | 464 | 317 | 320 |
| Corrected | 359 | 425 | 410 | 301 | 373 | 389 | 449 | 425 | 452 | 501 | 330 | 320 |
The total number of deaths from the seven most fatal
epidemic diseases was 320, which although greater than the
number in 1867, and all the years previous to 1863, yet is
smaller than in any year, except 1860, when the increase of
population is taken into account. The line of figures placed
opposite the word "corrected," shows the number of deaths