[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney].

  • Hackney (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1868
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    12 from epidemic diseases. The average of 10 years' returns for Hackney, excluding the deaths from cholera, shows that rather more than 20 per cent. of the deaths from all causes were caused by epidemic diseases; whereas, only 16½ per cent. were registered from these causes in 1867. This is usually the case during the year after a cholera outbreak, but not to so great an extent as in 1867. It is also somewhat remarkable that the deaths from tubercular diseases, including consumption, water on the brain, tubercular disease of the mesentery, and scrofula, were 20 per cent. in 1867 against an average of 16½ per cent. Diseases of the nervous system, of the heart, lungs, and stomach, &c., were less fatal than usual; whilst deaths from premature birth and debility, also from atrophy, were in excess. The deaths from epidemic and tubercular diseases, affections of the nervous system, and of the lungs, caused no less than 63½ per cent. of the total mortality. It is also worthy of remark, that the deaths from violence, including those from accidents, negligence, suicide, and murder, continue as nearly as possible at the same rate, for the average of 10 years was 34 in each 1000 deaths, and for 1867 it was 37 per 1000. TABLE VI. 1857-67.—Deaths from Seven Epidemic Diseases. 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 51°0 49°2 50°7 47°0 49°4 49°5 50°3 48°5 50°3 49°8 48°6 Small-Pox 1 0 5 2 1 2 41 12 6 31 27 Measles 22 36 10 43 36 32 37 79 22 26 15 Scarlet Fever 41 76 82 64 58 83 125 64 98 68 49 Diphtheria 27 27 11 24 27 34 15 22 12 16 Whooping Cough 57 64 36 51 62 56 28 48 56 89 72 Diarrhœa 69 50 87 19 55 25 60 71 125 162 75 Fever 59 51 55 38 55 89 49 77 75 76 63 Total 249 304 302 228 291 314 374 366 404 464 317
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