[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney] page 11

Hackney 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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was unusually high. It is satisfactory to find that tubercular
diseases did not cause so large a death-rate as usual.

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TABLE VI.

Deaths from the Seven Chief Zymotic Diseases in 1871-80, in Hackney.

Years	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
Mean Temperature for each year	48°7	50°7	49°1	49°4	49°4	50°1	49°7	49°6	45°4	49°1
Small Pox	400	111	9	5	2	92	179	86	10	69
Measles	25	59	28	68	61	15	91	31	81	21
Scarlet Fever	85	51	27	97	78	57	58	123	70	81
Diphtheria	8	7	21	10	21	23	18	23	19	14
Whooping Cough	76	97	81	52	113	126	43	135	110	141
Fever	34	50	53	45	58	44	62	70	47	27
Diarrhœa	123	115	161	102	116	136	86	159	67	170
Totals—Hackney	751	490	380	379	449	493	537	627	404	523
Totals for London	19,455	12,729	11,170	11,230	13,411	12,565	12,292	14,734	12,256	18,681

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Table VI.— Continued.

Diseases.	Annual Average No. of Deaths, 1871-1880.	Mean Annual No. of Deaths per 10,000 population 1871-1880.	Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths, 1881.	Deaths in 1881.
Diseases.	Annual Average No. of Deaths, 1871-1880.	Mean Annual No. of Deaths per 10,000 population 1871-1880.	Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths, 1881.	Per 10,000 population.	Totals.
Small Pox	96	6.6	6.2	11.95	225
Measles	48	3.3	4.1	7.92	149
Scarlet Fever	73	6.1	8.2	6.26	118
Diphtheria	16	1.2	1.6	3.21	61
Whooping Cough	97	6.4	1.9	3.72	70
Fever	49	3.7	1.8	3.40	64
Diarrhœa	124	8.3	3.7	7.17	135
Hackney	517	34.6	22.5	43.66	832
London	12,095	38.5	17.0	36.0	13,811