Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899.

  • Hackney (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table Showing condition of Drains of Houses in which primary cases of Infectious Disease occurred during the year 1899. DISEASE. Houses in which drains were defective. Houses in which drains were not defective. Total No. of Houses in which prim ary cases occurred. Per centage of Houses with defective drains. 1. Enteric Fever 34 161 195 21.1 2. Diphtheria 108 490 598 22.0 3. Scarlatina 112 648 760 17. 2 4. Erysipelas 24 252 276 9.5 34 CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1890. During the year applications were made by two owners for certificates under this Act for 14 dwellings, containing 40 tenements. The certificates were given after a few small repairs had been executed. Infectious Fevers and Drain Effluvia.—The following is a table showing the condition of the house drains in houses where primary cases of the specific fevers had occurred during the year. It is only of interest in so far as it indicates to a slight extent the relative relation of the fevers to effluvia from house drains. I have observed this relationship during the last three years. In each I have found the houses where diphtheria and enteric fever occurred to have a larger proportion of defective drains than the houses in which scarlatina and erysipelas occurred.
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