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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 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Table VI.
Deaths registered from all causes during the Year 1878, the Deaths of Non-residents in the Fever and Small Pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Cause of Death. Classes. | age at death. | Percentages. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 1 | 1 5 | 5 15 | 15 25 | 25 35 | 35 45 | 45 55 | 55 65 | 65 75 | 75 85 | 85 and upwds. | Totals | ||
| Zymotic | 249 | 246 | 78 | 49 | 48 | 26 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 733 | 21.6 |
| Constitutional | 66 | 64 | 26 | 68 | 91 | 118 | 69 | 58 | 44 | 14 | 1 | 619 | 18.2 |
| Local | 261 | 228 | 51 | 52 | 46 | 96 | 160 | 210 | 238 | 150 | 80 | 1528 | 45.1 |
| Developmental | 261 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 81 | 69 | 30 | 423 | 12.5 |
| Violent Deaths | 21 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 89 | 2.6 |
| Not Specified | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Totals | 858 | 550 | 165 | 192 | 198 | 255 | 249 | 300 | 323 | 238 | 64 | 3392 | 100 |
| Per cents, of death, 1878 | 25.3 | 16.2 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 9.5 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 100 | |
| „ „ 1866-75 | 24.8 | 15.7 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 100 | |
| „ „ 1856-65 | 21.0 | 16.4 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 10.9 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 100 | |
The death-rate from zymotic diseases was unusually high,
viz.: 21.6 per cent. of the total deaths, being somewhat in excess
of that for 1878, chiefly in consequence of the large number of
deaths of children from whooping cough, diarrhoea, and scarlet
fever. The total number of deaths under one year was 858, or
25.3 per cent. of the whole, which is somewhat above the average
for the ten years 1866-75. This large rate of infantile deaths
arises, to a considerable extent, from the large proportion of
infants to the remainder of the population, and not to an
excessive number of deaths under 1 year to births, as in this year
there were 145 deaths of infants under one year to each 1,000 births
against 143 in 1861-70; 144 in 1877; and 164 for all London
in 1878. There were 550 deaths, or 16.2 per cent. between 1
and 5 years; 165, or 4.9 per cent. between 5 and 15; 192, or