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Hackney 1879

[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.
0151525354555657585 and upwds.Totals
Classes.
151525354555657585
Zymotic129205532512121412105147814.6
Constitutional6079325797114836034131630191
Local313222595072123174236280138231690520
Developmental25014-3134_227673241212.5
Violent Deaths1888836107421751.8
Not Specified---
Totals770528152143197259281317355225583285100
Per cents, of death, 187923416.14.64.26.0798.89.610.86.81.8100
„ , 1866.7524.315.7515.37.17.3748.09.87.822100
„ „ 1856.6521.0164615169727.38.91098.02.2100

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