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 VIII.
1868-1878.—Deaths from the principal Infectious Diseases and dlarrhœa—52 weeks in each YEAR, Ha CKNEY .
Years | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean Temperature for for each year. | 51°6 | 49*5 | 18°7 | 48°7 | 50°7 | 4901 | 49°4 | 49°4 | 50° 1 | 49°7 | ||||
Small Pox | 6 | 6 | 16 | 400 | 111 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 92 | 179 | ||||
Measles | 35 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 59 | 28 | 68 | 61 | 15 | 91 | ||||
Scarlet Fever | 49 | 247 | 181 | 85 | 51 | 27 | 97 | 78 | 57 | 58 | ||||
Diphtheria | 14 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 23 | 18 | ||||
Whooping Cough | 44 | 102 | 39 | 76 | 97 | 81 | 52 | 113 | 126 | 43 | ||||
Fever | 54 | 60 | 51 | 34 | 50 | 53 | 45 | 58 | 44 | 62 | ||||
Diarrhœa | 120 | 97 | 115 | 123 | 115 | 161 | 102 | 116 | 136 | 86 | ||||
Totals—Hackney | 320 | 592 | 451 | 751 | 490 | 380 | 379 | 449 | 493 | 537 | ||||
Totals for London | 14,638 | 17.4I3 | 16,476 | 19.455 | 12,729 | 11,170 | 11,230 | 13.411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | ||||
Annual Average No. of Deaths. 1868-1877. | Mean Annual No. of Deaths per 10,000 population 1868-1877. | Deaths in 1878. | Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1868-1877. | |||||||||||
Per 10,000 population | Totals. | |||||||||||||
Small Pox | 83 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 86 | 2.5 | |||||||||
Measles | 49 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 31 | 0.9 | |||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 93 | 6.8 | 7.2 | 123 | 3.6 | |||||||||
Diphtheria | 15 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 23 | 0.7 | |||||||||
Whooping Cough | 77 | 5.6 | 8.1 | 135 | 4.0 | |||||||||
Fever | 51 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 70 | 2.1 | |||||||||
Diarrhœa | 117 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 159 | 47 | |||||||||
Hackney | 485 | 35.5 | 37.4 | 627 | 18.5 | |||||||||
London | 13.897 | 42.6 | 14.734 | 17.6 |