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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 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Hackney, when judged by this lest, has also increased, but
probably not to so large an extent as South Hackney; although
there have been a considerable number of houses erected in the
tirst-named sub-district.
TABLE IV.
Deaths registered from all causes during the tear 1875 the deaths op non-residents in the fever and s
Pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Cause of Death. Classes. | age at death. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- 1 | 1- 2 | 2-5 | 5- 15 | 15-25 | 25-35 | 35- 45 | 46- 55 | 55- 65 | 65-75 | 75- 85 | 85 and upwds. | Totals. | |
| Zymotic | 97 | 118 | 57 | 26 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 12 | — | 545 | ||
| Constitutional | 81 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 70 | 84 | 79 | 63 | 30 | 7 | — | 556 | |
| Local | 256 | 111 | 82 | 46 | 38 | 69 | 104 | 143 | 180 | 190 | 140 | 33 | 1392 |
| Developmental | 9 | 7 | — | 5 | 11 | 8 | — | 26 | 71 | 35 | 370 | ||
| Violent Deaths | — | 9 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 85 | |||
| Totals | 723 | 244 | 249 | 148 | 185 | 212 | 231 | 259 | 267 | 231 | 69 | 2948 | |
| 24.5 | 4.4 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 2.3 | 100 | |||||
This Table furnishes a large amount of important information,
not only as to the groups of diseases under which all the
deaths in the District are placed, but also as to the ages at which
the deaths occurred. The first group, which includes the seven
chief zymotic diseases, as well as rheumatism, syphilis, and some
others, which I think should be classed elsewhere (although they
do not materially affect the figures), produced a mortality of 545,
or 18.5 per cent. of the total deaths, which is much in excess of
those in 1874. The number of deaths from constitutional
diseases, such as consumption, hydrocephalus, gout, cancer, &c.,
was 556 or 18.9 per cent. against 544 in 1874,—the deaths from
consumption being 334, from tabes mesenterica 10, and from
cancer 69. Diseases having their seat in special organs, as