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 VI. 1864-74.—Deaths from the principal Infectious Diseases and dlarrhcea. 52 weeks in each year.
1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | |||
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Mean Temperature for each year | 4805 | 5003 | 4908 | 4806 | 5106 | 4905 | 4807 | 4807 | 5007 | 4901 | ||
Small Pox | 12 | 6 | 31 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 400 | 111 | 9 | ||
Measles | 79 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 35 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 59 | 28 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 64 | 98 | 68 | 49 | 49 | 247 | 181 | 85 | 51 | 27 | ||
Diphtheria | 15 | 22 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 21 | ||
Whooping Cough | 48 | 56 | 89 | 72 | 44 | 102 | 39 | 76 | 97 | 81 | ||
Fever | 77 | 75 | 76 | 63 | 54 | 60 | 51 | 34 | 50 | 53 | ||
Diarrhœa | 71 | 125 | 162 | 75 | 120 | 97 | 115 | 123 | 115 | 161 | ||
Totals—Hackney | 866 | 404 | 464 | 307 | 320 | 592 | 451 | 75* | 490 | 380 | ||
Totals for London | 17,078 | 14,272 | 14,761 | 11,660 | 14,638 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19.455 | 12,792 | 11,170 | ||
Annual Average No. of Deaths 1861-73. | Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1864-73. | Mean Annual No. of Deaths to 10,000 population—1864-73. | Deaths in 1874. | |||||||||
Small Pox | 2.6 | 5.6 | 5 | |||||||||
Measles | 1.6 | 3.5 | 68 | |||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 3.9 | 8.0 | 97 | |||||||||
Diphtheria | 0.6 | 1.2 | 10 | |||||||||
Whooping Cough | 2.9 | 6.2 | 52 | |||||||||
Fever | 2.5 | 5.5 | 45 | |||||||||
Diarrœa | 4.9 | 10.2 | 102 | |||||||||
Hackney | 452 | 19.0 | 40.2 | 379 | ||||||||
London | 14,971 | 19.8 | 46.2 | 11,230 |