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Hackney 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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was an excess of deaths in Stoke Newington, West Hackney,
Hackney and South Hackney, but a dimunition in Stamford
Hill. The excess of deaths in the Hackney Sub-District arose
chiefly from the unusual number of deaths from small pox, of
inhabitants of all the Sub-Districts, in the Homerton Hospital.
The greatest number of deaths occurred in the fourth quarter,
and the smallest in the first which is somewhat unusual.
TABLE IV.
Deaths Registered from all causes during the Year 1881, the Deaths of Non-Residents in the Fever and Small-pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Causes of Death. | AGE AT DEATH. | Totals | Percentages. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classes. | 0 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 85 and upwards. | ||
| 1 | 1 | 15 | 25 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 85 | ||||
| Zymotic, &c. (Class 1) | 223 | 332 | 144 | 86 | 66 | 29 | 20 | 6 | 18 | 4 | — | 928 | 25.7 |
| Constitutional | 60 | 86 | 17 | 54 | 102 | 83 | 65 | 56 | 36 | 17 | 2 | 578 | 16.0 |
| Local | 265 | 276 | 61 | 45 | 60 | 111 | 139 | 189 | 283 | 149 | 15 | 1593 | 44.1 |
| Developmental | 259 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 | - | 1 | 32 | 62 | 31 | 421 | 11.6 |
| Violent Deaths | 25 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 94 | 2.6 |
| Totals | 832 | 711 | 235 | 198 | 243 | 243 | 237 | 258 | 371 | 237 | 49 | 3614 | 100 |
| Per cents, of death, 1881 | 23.0 | 19.7 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 10.3 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 100 | |
| „ „ „ 1866-75 | 24.3 | 15.7 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 100 | |
| „ „ „ 1856-65 | 21.0 | 16.4 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 10.9 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 100 | |
The mortality from the zymotic class of diseases, No. 1, was
much less under 1 year of age in 1881 than in 1880, as there
were only 832 deaths at this age against 918 or 23.0 per cent, of
the deaths from all causes against 27'7 in 1881; but the total
number at all ages was greater in 1881. Now, considering the
large number of deaths from small pox in the District, this is