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Hackney 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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TABLE VII.— Continued.

Annual Average No. of Deaths. 1869.1878.Mean Annual No. of Deaths per 10,000 population 1869.1878.Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1879.Deaths in 1879.
Per 10,000 populationTotals.
Small Pox916.6030.610
Measles488.62.54.681
Scarlet Fever10073214.070
Diphtheria161.20.61.119
Whooping Cough86683.36.2110
Fever533.91.42.647
Diarrhcea1219 0203.867
Hackney51538012.2229404
London13,89741.833.5

The deaths from small.pox varied in 1869.79 between 2 in
1875 and 400 in 1871, the average annual number being 91,
against 10 in 1879. The deaths from measles have not varied
so greatly, the smallest number registered in any of these years
having been 15 in 1876, and the largest 91 in 1877, against 86
in 1878, and 81 in 1879. We have had an epidemic of this
disease for the last three years, which is therefore likely to pass
away. Scarlet fever has not prevailed so much as as usual, as
there were only 70 deaths recorded in 1879, against an uncorrected
average in 10 years of 100. There was a rather severe
epidemic in 1878, so that we may expect a smaller number of
deaths in 1880 than there were even in 1879. The largest
mortality during the period under consideration was 247 in 1869,
and the smallest 27 in 1873. The deaths from diphtheria are by
no means numerous in the district, as the largest number registered
in 1869.79 was 23, viz., in 1876, and the smallest 7, in
1872, against 19 in 1879. Whooping cough has been singularly
fatal not only in Hackney, but in the whole of London for some
time, as there were 123 deaths registered in Hackney during
1878. and 110 in 1879, against an uncorrected average of 86 for