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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 VIII.
Percentages of Deaths to the total Deaths in Hackney from 1856 to 1876, arranged in 12 groups.
| Zymotic diseases | Diseases of uncertain seat | Tubercular diseases | Diseases of the nervous system | Diseases of the circulator)* organs | Diseases of the respiratory organs | Diseases of the digestive and urinary organs | Diseases of the skin and joints | Premature birth and atrophy | Childbirth and diseases of women | Old age | Violence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
| 1856-65 | 20.80 | 4.84 | 16.77 | 12.18 | 5.04 | 16.39 | 6.50 | 0.60 | 4.89 | 0.93 | 6.96 | 4.10 | Temperature |
| 1866-75 | 20.42 | 4.69 | 16.52 | 12.09 | 5.88 | 16.64 | 6.15 | 0.52 | 6.45 | 1.16 | 6.34 | 3.19 | |
| 1871 | 28.4 | 41 | 156 | 10.6 | 5.7 | 15.7 | 5.7 | 0.4 | 5.7 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 48.7 |
| 1872 | 22.2 | 4.8 | 16.2 | 12.5 | 6.0 | 16.2 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 50.7 |
| 1873 | 17.1 | 4.6 | 15.1 | 12.8 | 6.8 | 19.1 | 6.4 | 0.5 | 7.0 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 3.3 | 48.9 |
| 1874 | 16.4 | 4.8 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 6.9 | 17.9 | 7.3 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 3.4 | 48.1 |
| 1875 | 17.7 | 4.0 | 15.6 | 12.1 | 6.5 | 22.1 | 6.5 | 0.9 | 7.2 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 49.4 |
| 1876 | 19.8 | 4.8 | 15.5 | 13.4 | 6.6 | 16.9 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 8.2 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 50.1 |
| Means | 20.27 | 4.65 | 15.55 | 14.45 | 6.41 | 17.98 | 6.35 | 0.47 | 6.73 | 1.21 | 5.18 | 2.98 | 49.3 |
Some of the groups contained in this table have been
already referred to, so that we shall discuss the figures for 1876,
chiefly in their relation to those of former years. In the first
place it is very noticeable how little the mortality in each of
these groups has varied, with the exception of zymotic diseases,
and even these have caused a very even rate, when periods of at
least five years, or better still, ten years are taken. Thus we see
that in the ten years, 1856-65, the mean zymotic mortality was
20.80, in 1866-75 20.42, and in 1871-76, 20.27 percent. of