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

  • Hackney (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1876
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    37 period of 184]-51, was 24.77; in the 10 years, 1851-61, it was 23.77, or 1.0 per 1000 population less than in 1841-51; in 1861-71 it was 24.43, and since 1871 the average has been 22.95, so that although the density of population is much greater the death-rate has diminished. The columns in Table XIII, to which I now desire to call your attention, are important, because they show the mortality from zymotic diseases as far as possible in England and Wales and London and Hackney. During the years 1841-51 the returns for England are printed by the Registrar-General for six years only. The average number of deaths in the years 1841-61 from scarlet fever, small pox, measles, whooping cough, fevers, diarrhoea, and other zymotic diseases was at the rate of 19.3 per 5000; in 1861-71 it was 20.8, and in 1871-75 only 18.4, being but little above the average for 1841-51. In London the death-rate from these diseases was higher than for all England, as it was 22.2 per 5000 in 1841-51; 22.7 per 5000 in 1851-61; 23.9 per 5000 in 1861-71, but in 1841-75 it was only 19.9. It is therefore evident that the mortality from these diseases is as regular, when taken together and for a sufficiently long period, as the mortality from all causes. This will readily be seen by comparing the means of deaths from all causes and from epidemics alongside of one another, when the correspondence will be appreciated. TABLE XIII. Years. ENGLAND. LONDON. HACKNEY. Death-rate per 1000 population, from all cauaes. Death-rate per 5000 population, from seven epidemic diseases. Death-rate per 1000 population, from all causes. Death-rate per 5000 population, from seven epidemic diseases. Death-rate per 1000 population, from all causes. Death-rate per 5000 population, from seven epidemic diseases. 1841-51 22.36 18.2 27.77 22.2 19.18 .... 1851-61 22.24 19.3 23.77 22.7 19.14 17.80 [1856-61 1861-71 22.51 20.8 24.43 23.9 20.37 18.90 1871-75 21.76 18.4 22.95 19.9 20.28 18.50 The mortality from these diseases was nearly as uniform in