London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hackney 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table I.

London—Deaths under 1 Year in July, August, and part of September from Diarrhcea per 1,000,000 Population then Living at all Ages.

Years.Mean temperature 10 weeks.Temperature of Thames Water.Age, 0.1. Deaths from Diarrhoea per 1,000,000 population living at all ages.
°°
186058.16o.6151
186259.062.0189
187958760.7228
187761.263.3347
187461.763.8447
187863.764.1576
187664.464.9642

The deaths per 1,000,000 population in 1860 and 1862 were
proportionately smaller than in 1879, when the close approximation
of temperature is taken into account; but, with these
exceptions, the death.rate corresponds with great regularity to
the mean temperature of the air and of the Thames water. Thus
in 1860, with a mean temperature of 58.1°, we find an infantile
death.rate from diarrhcea of 151; and of 228 in 1879, with a
temperature of 58.7°, against only 189 in 1862, with a mean
temperature of 59.0°. In 1877, with a mean temperature of
the air of 61.2°, and of the Thames water of 63.3°, the death.
rate was 347 ; in 1874, with an air temperature of 61.7°, and of
the Thames of 63.8°, there was a mortality of 4.47; in 1878,
with an air temperature of 63.7°, and of the Thames of 64.1°,
the death.rate increased to 576; and in 1876, with an air temperature
of 64.4°, and of the Thames water of 64.9°, the death.
rate under one year from diarrhœa rose as high as 642 per
1,000,000 inhabitants living at all ages.