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Hackney 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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district of London, which had the smallest mortality of any of
these divisions. This is very satisfactory when we consider how
poor and crowded are some of the streets in Hackney and South
Hackney. Indeed if a high death-rate of children under 1 year
old, as compared with the births, existed in any of these Subdistricts,
I should feel much dissatisfied at such a result of the
active sanitary work which has been so long carried out in this
district.
TABLE IV.
Deaths uegistehed from all causes during the 'year 1874,
the deaths of non-residents in the fever and small
Pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Cause of Death. Classes. | ages at death. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 -1 | 1 -2 | 2 -5 | 6 -15 | 15 -25 | 25 -35 | 35 -45 | 45 -65 | 55 -65 | 65 -75 | 76 -85 | 85 & upwds. | Totals. | |
| Zymotic | 150 | 63 | 110 | 64 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 477 |
| Constitutional | 72 | 34 | 35 | 23 | 66 | 76 | 88 | 67 | 46 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 544 |
| Local | 243 | 86 | 82 | 56 | 30 | 53 | 99 | 126 | 170 | 216 | 120 | 18 | 1299 |
| Developmental | 178 | 1 | — | — | 6 | 16 | 4 | — | 2 | 48 | 86 | 44 | 385 |
| Violent (Deaths ) | 23 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 94 |
| Totals | 666 | 187 | 239 | 151 | 35 | 172 | 220 | 209 | 234 | 301 | 218 | 67 | 2799 |
| Per centge. | 23.8 | 6.7 | 8.5 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 6.1 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 8.3 | 10.9 | 7.8 | 2.4 | 100 |
This table shows that out of a total of 2799 deaths which
belong to this district, 477 deaths or 16.4 per cent, of the whole
occurred from "Zymotic Diseases"; 544 or 19.4 per cent, from
"Constitutional Affections," which includes gout, cancer, tabes
mesenterica, consumption, and water on the brain; and 1299 or
46.4 per cent, from "Local Diseases,"—under this name we have
grouped diseases of the nervous system, affections of the heart,