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Hackney 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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pox at advanced ages, as 6 persons were registered as having died
from this disease between 63 and 75, and 1 above 75 years of age.
There was also the death of an infant only 14 days old registered
from whooping cough, which, however, I think must have been
an error. There was also 1 death registered as having occurred
from vaccination, the return of death was as follows—vaccination,
1 month; erysipelas, 3 weeks; abscess, 2 weeks; congestion
of lungs, 2 weeks. It is a question, therefore, if the death of
this child, aged 7 months, was not caused by the last named
disease.
TABLE V.
S howing the M ortality from certain C lasses of D isease for 1880, also the percentages to P opulation and to T otal D eaths for 1878-81.
| Total Deaths. 1881. | Percentages of Deaths to Total Deaths. 1881. | Deaths per 1000 population. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | ||||
| 1. Zymotic Diseases | Class 1 | 908 | 25.1 | 4.31 | 2.61 | 3.37 | 4.82 |
| Ordrer 1 | |||||||
| 2. Tubercular | 429 | 11.9 | 2.90 | 2.68 | 2.51 | 2.27 | |
| 3. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis | 710 | 19.6 | 3.68 | 4.53 | 3.79 | 3.77 | |
| 4. Convulsive Diseases of Infants under 1 year | 193 | 5.3 | 0.76 | 0.81 | 0.94 | 1.02 | |
| 5. Wasting Diseases of Infants | 238 | 6.6 | 1.47 | 1.24 | 1.39 | 1.26 | |
2. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, Tubes Mesenterica, and deaths registered as being
caused by Hydrocephalus in children more than one year old.
4. Includes Infantile Hydrocephalus, Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teething.
5. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth.
As already stated, the mortality from zymotic diseases, except
as regards infants under 1 year, was above the average. This
table shows that the death-rate per 1,000 population was 4.82
from the diseases included under the heading "Order 1" of the
Registrar General, against 3.37 in 1880. Some of the affections
included under this heading are certainly not zymotic, but for
purposes of comparison they will suffice. On the other hand the
proportion of deaths from tubercular diseases and from wasting
diseases of infants, was below the average, and especially the
former; but from convulsive diseases of infants the mortality