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2. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, Tabes Mesenterica, and deaths from
Hydrocephalus in children more than a year.
4. Includes Infantile Hydrocephalus, Meningitis, Convulsions and Teething.
5. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, Want of Breast Milk, and
Premature Birth.
This table is one of some importance as it shows the
number of deaths from Zymotic diseases; Tubercular affections;
Pulmonary diseases, except Phthisis, which is placed with Tubercular
affections; Convulsive and Wasting diseases of infants.
Most of these diseases, except the Zymotic class, take their
origin either from family predisposition, the want of proper food
and care, exposure to cold or vicissitudes of weather, overcrowding,
or some of the other evils which are almost inseparable from
poverty and to a certain extent from vice. The number of deaths
from Zymotic diseases was unusually small in spite of the
Scarlet Fever epidemic, as only 164 out of each 1000 deaths were
registered from these causes. This is the smallest percentage
which has been registered in Hackney since the passing of the
Metropolis Local Management Act, the next smallest having
been in 1867 and 1868 when only 168 per 1000 were registered.
It is also especially worthy of remark, as all the deaths of
inhabitants from Scarlet Fever in the Homerton Hospitals are
included this year in the returns, but were not previously to 1871,
so that the average for the 18 years, which is 210, would have