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Hackney 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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number of houses, be sufficient to shew that there are manymore
residents there than in 1881. In West Hackney there
were only 625 deaths in 1882 against 678 in 1881, but this
decrease was caused to a great extent by the diminution in this
year of deaths from diarrhoea, which disease causes ordinarily
more than its fair proportion of deaths in this sub-district. In
Hackney sub-district there were fewer deaths than in 1881,
viz., 1698 against 1728; whilst in South Hackney there were
only 628 deaths against 700 in 1881.
TABLE IV.
Deaths Registered from all causes during the Year 1882, the Deaths of Non-Residents in the Fever and Small-Pox Hospitals being excluded.
| Causes of Death. Classes. | age at death. | Percentages | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 1 | 1 5 | 5 15 | 15 25 | 25 35 | 35 45 | 45 55 | 55 65 | 65 75 | 75 85 | 85 and upwards | Totals | ||
| Zymotic,&c. (Class 1) | 153 | 312 | 108 | 28 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 682 | 19.5 |
| Constitutional | 90 | 103 | 26 | 62 | 103 | 106 | 75 | 63 | 44 | 15 | 1 | 688 | 19.6 |
| Local | 300 | 234 | 88 | 44 | 62 | 118 | 173 | 212 | 253 | 146 | 27 | 1657 | 47.2 |
| Developmental | 208 | 15 | — | 4 | 13 | 6 | 1 | — | 20 | 70 | 41 | 378 | 10.8 |
| ViolentDeaths | 17 | 19 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | 100 | 2.9 |
| Totals | 768 | 683 | 230 | 150 | 211 | 264 | 274 | 291 | 326 | 236 | 72 | 3505 | 100.0 |
| Per cents. of death, 1882 | 21.9 | 19.5 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 6.0 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 9.3 | 6.7 | 2.1 | 100 | - |
| Do. 1806.76 | 24.3 | 15.7 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 100 | — |
| Do. 1856.65 | 21.0 | 16.4 | 6.1 | 51 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 8.9 | 10.9 | 8.0 | 2.2 | 100 | — |
Table 4 is very satisfactory, as it shews a much smaller
percentage of deaths from zymotic diseases, in which are
included small pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough, fever and diarrhoea; and especially as it shows a greatly
reduced mortality under 1 year of age. The total deaths
from zymotic diseases (Class 1) were 682 against 928 in 1881,
being a very great reduction for the year; but, as might be