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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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Showing the Mortality from certain Classes of Diseases, the percentages to population and to total deaths —1878.
| Total Deaths. 1878 | Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1878 | Deaths per 1000 population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | 1877 | |||
| 1. Zymotic Diseases (Class 1, Order 1) | 702 | 20.7 | 4.31 | 3.8o |
| 2. Tubercular | 472 | 13.9 | 2.90 | 2.91 |
| 3. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis | 600 | 17.7 | 3.68 | 3.25 |
| 4. Convulsive Diseases of Infants under 1 year | 123 | 3.6 | 0.76 | 0.81 |
| 5. Wasting Diseases of Infants | 238 | 7.0 | 1.47 | 1.43 |
2. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, Tabes Mesenterial, and deaths registered as being
caused by Hydrocephalus in children of more than one year.
4. Includes Infantile Hydrocephalus, Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teething.
5. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, "Want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth.
This group of diseases differs from those contained in the
Registrar General's Reports as they were framed in accordance
with a resolution of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
The zymotic death-rate as before stated was unusually high in
consequence of whooping cough, scarlet fever, small-pox and
diarrhoea being prevalent during the same year, which is very
unusual, and may not happen again for several years. The
deaths from tubercular affections were in the ordinary proportion
for this district, viz.:—2-90 per 1,000 inhabitants, but the
mortality from acute pulmonary affections, viz., bronchitis,
pneumonia, pleurisy, and laryngitis was in excess of the ordinary
rate owing to the early and severe winter of 1878-79. Convulsive
diseases of infants were rather below, whilst wasting
diseases of infants produced a little more than their ordinary
mortality. As the diseases included in these groups are
enumerated in a foot note to the table I need not recapitulate
them. The mortality from these maladies was 13.12 per cent. of
the total deaths in 1878, against 12.20 in 1877.
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