Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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table VII.
1867-1877.– Deaths from the principal Infectious Diseases
And Diarrhœa–52 Weeks in Each Year.
1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean Temperature for ) each year. | 48°6 | 51°6 | 49°5 | 48°7 | 48°7 | 50° 7 | 49°1 | 49°4 | 49°4 | 50°1 | |||
Small Pox | 27 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 400 | 111 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 92 | |||
Measles | 15 | 35 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 59 | 28 | 68 | 61 | 15 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 49 | 49 | 247 | 181 | 85 | 51 | 27 | 97 | 78 | 57 | |||
Diphtheria | 16 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 23 | |||
Whooping Cough,. | 72 | 44 | 102 | 39 | 76 | 97 | 81 | 52 | 113 | 126 | |||
Fever | 63 | 54 | 60 | 51 | 34 | 50 | 53 | 45 | 58 | 44 | |||
Diarrhœa | 75 | 120 | 97 | 115 | 123 | 115 | 161 | 102 | 116 | 136 | |||
Totals—Hackney | 317 | 320 | 592 | 451 | 751 | 490 | 380 | 379 | 449 | 493 | |||
Totals for London | 11,660 | 14,638 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,729 | 11,170 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12.565 | |||
Hackney Annual Average No. of Deaths. 1867-1876. | Hackney Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1867-1876. | Hackney Mean Annual No. of Deaths per 10,000 population 1867-1876. | Deaths in 1877. | ||||||||||
Totals. | Per 10.000 Populatin | ||||||||||||
Small-pox | 67.0 | 2.6 | 5.3 | 179 | 11.2 | ||||||||
Measles | 41.0 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 91 | 5.7 | ||||||||
scarlet-Fever | 92.0 | 3.6 | 7.3 | 58 | 3.6 | ||||||||
Diphtheria | 14.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 18 | 1.1 | ||||||||
Whooping Cough | 80.0 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 43 | 2.7 | ||||||||
Fever | 51.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 62 | 3.9 | ||||||||
Diarrhœa | 116.0 | 4.5 | 9.1 | 86 | 5.4 | ||||||||
Hackney | 462.0 | 17.9 | 36.3 | 537 | 33.6 | ||||||||
London | 14,075 | 18.4 | 42.9 |
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