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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
Hornsey 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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in the Hornsey District were certified) there were considerably more
than double the average number of cases of diarrhoea, and that during
that period the mortality from these principal zymotic diseases was
nearly twice that of the corrected average owing to the excessive fatality
of summer diarrhoea. Thus tending to show that there were general
conditions favourable to the development of this disease not affecting
the Hornsey District only, but more or less the various sanitary
areas in and around London.
The deaths from diseases other than zymotic are as follows:—
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From Pulmonary Consumption | 38 | 28 | 35 | 40 | 43 | 30 | 43 |
| „ Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and other Pulmonary Diseases | 122 | 118 | 139 | 87 | 105 | 96 | 100 |
| „ Brain Diseases | 59 | 63 | 69 | 68 | 50 | 58 | 47 |
| „ Heart „ | 42 | 46 | 61 | 40 | 64 | 68 | 56 |
| „ Rheumatism | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| „ Ague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ,, Puerperal Diseases | 5 | 10 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 |
| „ Pysemia | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| „ Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | 1 |
| „ Malignant Diseases, Cancer. Ac. | 22 | 24 | 37 | 31 | 22 | 31 | 30 |
| „ Injuries | 11 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 10 |
| „ Various other Causes | 157 | 160 | 139 | 153 | 202 | 166 | 174 |
| Totals | 460 | 464 | 503 | 441 | 505 | 465 | 464 |