Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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occurring in infants, convulsions and teething, as well as
wasting diseases of children under 1 year, were much below
the average.
TABLE VI.
Deaths from the seven chief Zymotic Diseases during the Ten Years, 1872-81, in Hackney, and in 1882.
Years | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean Temperature for each year | 50°7 | 49°1 | 49°4 | 49°4 | 50°1 | 49°7 | 49°6 | 45°4 | 49°1 | 48°7 |
Small Pox | 111 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 92 | 179 | 86 | 10 | 69 | 225 |
Measles | 69 | 28 | 68 | 61 | 15 | 91 | 31 | 81 | 21 | 149 |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 27 | 97 | 78 | 57 | 58 | 123 | 70 | 81 | 118 |
Diphtheria | 7 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 61 |
Whooping Cough | 97 | 81 | 52 | 113 | 126 | 43 | 135 | 110 | 141 | 70 |
Fever | 50 | 53 | 45 | 58 | 44 | 62 | 70 | 47 | 27 | 64 |
Diarrhœa | 115 | 161 | 102 | 116 | 136 | 86 | 159 | 67 | 170 | 135 |
Totals—Hackney | 490 | 880 | 379 | 449 | 493 | 537 | 627 | 401 | 523 | 822 |
Totals for London | 12,729 | 11,170 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,811 |
TABLE VI— Continued.
DISEASES. | Annual Average No. of Deaths 1872-81, | Mean Annual No. of Deaths par 10,000 population, 1872-81. | Percentage of Deaths to Total Deaths 1882. | Deaths in 1882. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Per 10,000 population. | Totals. | ||||
Small Pox | 79 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.66 | 13 |
Measles | 60 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 2.20 | 43 |
Scarlet Fever | 76 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 7.88 | 144 |
Diphtheria | 22 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 2.61 | 51 |
Whooping Cough. | 97 | 6.2 | 5.2 | 9.32 | 182 |
Fever | 52 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 3.23 | 63 |
Diarrhœa | 125 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 5.12 | 99 |
Hackney | 511 | 32.7 | 16.7 | 31.02 | 595 |
London | 12,788 | 36.19 | 16.3 | 34.29 | 13,553 |