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 V.
Deaths registered from all causes during the Year 1879 the Deaths of Non.residents in the Fever and Smali Pox Hospitals being excluded.
Causes of Death. | age at death. | Percentages. | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 85 and upwds. | Totals | ||
Classes. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
1 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 85 | ||||
Zymotic | 129 | 205 | 53 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 478 | 14.6 |
Constitutional | 60 | 79 | 32 | 57 | 97 | 114 | 83 | 60 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 630 | 191 |
Local | 313 | 222 | 59 | 50 | 72 | 123 | 174 | 236 | 280 | 138 | 23 | 1690 | 520 |
Developmental | 250 | 14 | - | 3 | 13 | 4 | _ | 2 | 27 | 67 | 32 | 412 | 12.5 |
Violent Deaths | 18 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 75 | 1.8 |
Not Specified | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | - | - |
Totals | 770 | 528 | 152 | 143 | 197 | 259 | 281 | 317 | 355 | 225 | 58 | 3285 | 100 |
Per cents, of death, 1879 | 234 | 16.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 79 | 8.8 | 9.6 | 10.8 | 6.8 | 1.8 | 100 | |
„ , 1866.75 | 24.3 | 15.7 | 51 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 74 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 22 | 100 | |
„ „ 1856.65 | 21.0 | 164 | 61 | 51 | 69 | 72 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 109 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 100 |
This table shows that the number of deaths from zymotic
diseases last year was the smallest, in proportion to total deaths,
that I have ever recorded, as the percentage was only 14.6, against
21.6 in 1878, and 20.3 in 1877, whilst deaths from "Constitutional
"and "Developmental"causes were about an average,
The chief mortality during the year was caused by "Local"diseases,
as no less than 52 per cent, of the total deaths were
assigned to this group, to a great extent from inflammatory
diseases of the lungs. In 1878 the percentage of deaths from
constitutional diseases was 18.2, against 19.1 in 1879 ; from
"Local"causes, 45.1 in 1878, against 52.0 in 1879; from
developmental causes, 12.5, against 12.5; and from violence, 2.6
in 1878, against only 1.8 per cent, in 1879. The number under
one year to total deaths was decidedly smaller than in 1878, and