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 IX.
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. | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | Annual Average of 10 Years, 1875-1884 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 Years, 1875-1884 | Total Deaths in 1885 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1885 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 2 | 92 | 179 | 86 | 10 | 69 | 225 | 13 | 19 | 210 | 90.5 | 27.2 | 86 | 23.2 | |
Measles | 61 | 15 | 91 | 31 | 81 | 21 | 149 | 43 | 117 | 55 | 66.4 | 19.8 | 168 | 45.6 | |
Scarlet Fever | 78 | 57 | 58 | 123 | 70 | 81 | 118 | 144 | 63 | 72 | 85.4 | 25.9 | 29 | 7.9 | |
Diphtheria | 21 | 23 | 18 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 51 | 43 | 39 | 25.2 | 7.5 | 47 | 12.8 | |
Whooping Cough | 113 | 126 | 43 | 135 | 110 | 141 | 70 | 182 | 56 | 157 | 113.3 | 34.1 | 85 | 23.4 | |
Fevers. | Typhus | 1 | |||||||||||||
Enteric | 58 | 44 | 62 | 70 | 47 | 27 | 64 | 63 | 46 | 84 | 55.5 | 17.0 | 37 | 10.8 | |
Simple continued | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Diarrhœa | 116 | 136 | 86 | 159 | 67 | 170 | 135 | 99 | 104 | 190 | 120.5 | 37.9 | 125 | 33.9 | |
Totals | 449 | 493 | 537 | 627 | 404 | 523 | 762 | 595 | 448 | 807 | 564.5 | 168.4 | 689 | 157.6 | |
Totals—London | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,558 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 13,074 | 160.4 | 11,647 | 145.6 |