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

  • Hackney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1958]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 Maternal mortality. The one death from causes associated with pregnancy or childbirth, was certified as follows:- Age Cause of death 34 Septic abortion - open verdict (Inquest) The maternal mortality rates for Hackney and for England and Wales in the last five years were:- 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 Hackney 0.37 0.40 1.68 0.82 1.19 England and Wales 0.47 0.56 0.64 0.69 0.76 Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea. The age and sex distribution of the six persons certified as having died from these causes was:- Age groups Males Females Total 25-44 1 - 1 45-64 - - - 65-74 1 2 3 75 and upwards 1 1 2 3 3 6 Other infective and parasitic disease. Five deaths were classified under this group:- Sex Age Cause of death Female 17 months Acute bronchitis due to scarlet fever. Female 3 years Encephalitis varicella. Female 6 years Encephalitis: varicella. Female 32 years Acute virus hepatitis: pregnancy. Female 65 years Hepatic fibrosis due to old infective hepatitis. Leukaemia. Details of the seven male deaths classified under this group are as follows:- 3 years Cerebral haemorrhage: acute lymphatic leukaemia, 5 years Acute myeloid leukaemia, 9 years Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, 21 years Acute lymphatic leukaemia, 53 years Myeloblastic leukaemia, 59 years Pneumonic consolidation left lung: chronic lymphatic leukaemia, 61 years Aleukaemic myeloid leukaemia: dementia. Influenza. Details of the 19 deaths associated with influenza are as follows:- Males - 20 years Bronchopneumonia due to influenza, 50 years Post- influenzal bronchopneumonia: mid brain tumour, 57 years Bronchopneumonia; influenza. 59 years Influenzal bronchopneumonia: chronic bronchitis and cor pulmonale. 69 years Pneumonia influenza, 69 years Influenzal bronchopneumonia cardiac failure: chronic bronchitis. 69 years Heart failure bronchopneumonia influenza carcinoma bowel and colostomy 75 years Post-influenzal bronchopneumonia with extensive consolidation. 80 years Influenzal bronchial pneumonia, senility. 83 years Bronchopneumonia' influenza.