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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 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Table V.
Deaths registered from all causes during the Year, 1876, the Deaths of Non-residents in the Fever and Smalt Pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Cause of Death. | AGE AT DEATH. | Percentages. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classes. | 0 1 | 1 0 | 2 5 | 5 15 | 15 25 | 25 35 | 35 45 | 45 55 | 55 65 | 65 75 | 75 85 | 85 and upwds. | Totals | |
| Zymotic | 203 | 86 | 88 | 66 | 20 | 28 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 558 | 19.8 |
| Constitutional | 62 | 41 | 28 | 19 | 70 | 108 | 85 | 60 | 48 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 565 | 20.0 |
| Local | 252 | 84 | 60 | 41 | 52 | 45 | 92 | 120 | 181 | 182 | 106 | 26 | 1241 | 43.9 |
| Developmental | 231 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 12 | 13 | 1 | .. | 12 | 76 | 28 | 378 | 13.4 |
| Violent Deaths | 23 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 81 | 2.9 |
| Not Specified | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
| Totals | 773 | 214 | 183 | 135 | 154 | 199 | 210 | 209 | 244 | 238 | 206 | 60 | 2825 | 100 |
| Percentages of Deaths | 27.4 | 7.6 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 21 | 100 | - |
This is an important table, as it shows not only the ages at
death, but the proportion of deaths from different groups of
disease. Thus there were 558 deaths from zymotic diseases, being
19.8 per cent. of the whole, which is a very low percentage,
considering that there were 92 deaths from small pox against 2
the year before. There were 565 deaths from constitutional
diseases, or 20.0 per cent. of the whole. This group includes
gout, dropsy, cancer, mortification, scrofula, tabes-mesenterica,
consumption, and water on the brain; so that it affords a fair
indication of the healthiness of a locality, and, to a certain
extent, of the social condition of the people, as the mortality
from these diseases is high amongst the ill-fed and badly lodged.
The largest proportion of deaths occurred from local diseases—
that is to say, from inflammation of the brain, apoplexy,
paralysis, convulsions, and other affections of the brain and
spinal cord. Also from head disease, inflammatory diseases of