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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TABLE IV.
Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in Hackney during the 10 Years 1874 to 1883, and in the Year 1884.
Diseases. | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | Annual Average of 10 Years, 1874-1883 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 Years, 1874-1883 | Total Deaths in 1884 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1884 | |||
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Small-pox | 5 | 2 | 92 | 179 | 86 | 10 | 69 | 225 | 13 | 19 | 70.0 | 19.4 | 210 | 56.7 | |||
Measles | 68 | 61 | 15 | 91 | 31 | 81 | 21 | 149 | 43 | 117 | 67.7 | 18.9 | 55 | 14.9 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 97 | 78 | 57 | 58 | 123 | 70 | 81 | 118 | 144 | 63 | 88.9 | 24.7 | 72 | 19.4 | |||
Diphtheria | 10 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 51 | 43 | 22.3 | 6.2 | 39 | 10.5 | |||
Whooping-Cough | 52 | 113 | 126 | 43 | 135 | 110 | 141 | 70 | 182 | 56 | 102.8 | 28.5 | 157 | 42.4 | |||
Fevers. | Typhus | 45 | 58 | 44 | 62 | 70 | 47 | 27 | 64 | 63 | 46 | 52.6 | 14.3 | 1 | 84 | 22.7 | |
Enteric | 80 | ||||||||||||||||
. Simple Continued | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Diarrhœa | 102 | 116 | 136 | 86 | 159 | 67 | 170 | 135 | 99 | 104 | 117.4 | 32.6 | 190 | 51.3 | |||
Totals | 379 | 449 | 493 | 537 | 627 | 404 | 523 | 762 | 595 | 448 | 521.7 | 144.6 | 807 | 217.9 | |||
Totals—London | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,558 | 10,801 | 12,834 | 158.9 | 13,629 |