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Hackney 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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organs, termed local diseases, 47.2 per cent.; from developmental
diseases, including old age, and premature birth and debility,
10.8 per cent.; whilst deaths from violence amounted to 2.9
per cent. of the deaths from all causes.
TABLE V.
Shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Disease for 1882, also the Percentages to Population and to Total Deaths for 1879-82.
| Total Deaths. 1882. | Percentages of Deaths to Total Deaths, 1882. | Deaths per 1000 population. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | ||||
| 1. Zymotic Diseases | Class 1 | 661 | 18.9 | 261 | 3.37 | 4.82 | 3.39 |
| Order 1 | |||||||
| 2. Tubercular | 506 | 14.4 | 2.68 | 2ol | 2.27 | 2.59 | |
| 3. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis | 773 | 22.1 | 4.53 | 3.79 | 3.77 | 3.96 | |
| 4. Convulsive Diseases of Infants under 1 year | 126 | 3.6 | 0.81 | 0.94 | 1.02 | 0.65 | |
| 5. Wasting Diseases of Infants | 192 | 5.5 | 1.24 | 1.39 | 1.26 | 0.98 | |
2. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, Tabes 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.
The deaths returned in the Zymotic class for this table are
not so numerous as in the former table, because deaths in
order 1 of this class only are included. As before mentioned
these deaths were considerably fewer than in 1881, although in
proportion to the population they were nearly the same as
in 1880, but were less than in 1879. The last named, however,
was a year in which deaths from these diseases were less
numerous than for many preceding years. The mortality from
tubercular affections, and pulmonary diseases, except phthisis,
which are included amongst tubercular, was higher than in 1880
and 1881, which is usually the case when zymotic diseases are
less fatal than usual, as they were in 1882. Convulsive diseases
of infants, which include hydrocephalus and meningitis