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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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43
Alcoholism.
Alcoholism.—During the year under consideration there were
two deaths from alcoholic poisoning, and seven deaths registered
as due to cirrhosis of the liver, a condition regarded, as a rule, to
be due to excessive indulgence in alcohol, extending over lengthy
periods.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0— 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| 1— 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | ... | ... | 5 | 3 |
| 5—10 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 1 | ... | 6 | ... |
| 10—15 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 |
| 15- 20 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 20—25 | 20 | 33 | 3 | 13 | 14 | ... | ... | |
| 25—35 | 35 | 42 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 15 | ... | ... |
| as—45 | 47 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 17 | ... | ... |
| 45—55 | 29 | 12 | 1 | 22 | 6 | ... | 1 | |
| 55—65 | 17 | 8 | ... | 14 | 10 | ... | ... | |
| 65 and upwards | 5 | 4 | 1 | ... | 9 | 3 | ... | ... |
| Totals | 179 | 151 | 49 | 39 | 105 | 75 | 13 | 8 |
During 1926, 418 primary notifications of tuberculosis were
received, details of which are given on page 51 of this Report.
Bacteriological examination of sputa from 467 cases was made
by the Council's Bacteriologists during the same period. In 65
of these examinations the specific organism of the disease was
discovered, and in the remainder the result was negative.
The number of deaths from tuberculous disease in Hackney
during 1926, was 201, a decrease of 23 upon the deaths during
1925. These deaths are classified as follows:—