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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HACKNEY DISTRICT.
Causes of Death. | Deaths in whole District at subjoined ages. | Deaths in Localities (at all Ages ) | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||||||||||||
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All Ages. | Under 1 | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | ]5 and under 25. | 25 and under 35. | 65 and upwards | North Hackney. | South-east Hackney. | South-w't Hackney. | Central Hackney. | ||||||
Small-pox | 5 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | ||||
Measles | 87 | 22 | 58 | 6 | .. | 1 | .. | 9 | 38 | 11 | 29 | 19 | ||||
Scarlet fever | 23 | .. | 13 | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 12 | ||||
Whooping-cough | 49 | 21 | 27 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 10 | 14 | 16 | 9 | |||||
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 95 | 3 | 56 | 34 | 2 | .. | .. | 22 | 22 | 21 | 30 | 145 | ||||
Croup | 3 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 0 | .. | 1 | .. | ||||
Fever | Typhus | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Enteric | 2 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 | 13 | .. | 1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 22 | ||||
Other cont'ed | , , | |||||||||||||||
Epidemic influenza | 38 | 4 | 1 | .. | 2 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 3 | ||||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Diarrhœa | 168 | 130 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 80 | 40 | 26 | 15 | ||||
Enteritis | 77 | 56 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 25 | 34 | 11 | ||||
Puerperal fever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | ||||
Erysipelas | 15 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | ||||
Other septic diseases | 5 | 1 | :: | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Phthisis | 306 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 47 | 231 | 10 | 42 | 83 | 81 | 100 | 125 |