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been somewhat larger if all the deaths had been included. The
rate of death from this class of disease in proportion to the
population, viz.: 33 per 10,000 persons, was smaller than for all
London. The deaths from Tubercular affections, amounting to
427 or 152 per 1000 deaths, were about the ordinary number, or
perhaps rather less than usual; the death rate to 10,000 population
was 36. The number of deaths from Pulmonary affections was
larger than for any other group of diseases under consideration
as 502 deaths or 179 per 1000 deaths, or 36 per 10,000 population,
were registered. This is larger than the average for the
district, which is 100 per 1000 deaths.
Convulsive diseases of infants, that is to say, infantile wateron-the-brain,
meningitis, convulsions and teething, caused 124
deaths, or in the proportion of 44 per 1000 deaths; whilst
Wasting diseases of children, which include marasmus, atrophy
and debility, want of breast milk and premature birth, caused a
mortality of 173 or 62 per 1000 deaths.
The next table is one of considerable importance, as it shows
not only the number of deaths in each year since 1864 from
small pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough,
fever and diarrhoea in Hackney, but also the totals from these
seven epidemic diseases in London. It also shows the annual
average number of deaths, the percentage of deaths to total
deaths, and the mean annual number of deaths per 10,000
population for the 10 years 1864-73.