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These were allocated by resolution at the first meeting of the
Council to the Public Health Committee. This has, in consequence,
very largely increased the work of the Public Health Department.
I am pleased to put on record that, on the whole, the Sanitary
Inspectors and other Officers of the Public Health Department
have earnestly and ably performed the duties allotted to them
during the past year.
Population and Density.—During the preparation of this report
the decennial Census of 1901 has been taken, and owing to the early
issue of a summary of the population, I am enabled with more
accuracy to calculate the population of Hackney at the middle of
1900. The rate of increase which had been maintained during the
quinquennial period of 1891 to 1896 has not been maintained in
Hackney since; on the contrary, it has declined very much. If the
rate of the previous quinquennium had been maintained, the
population would have been 225,318 at the middle of 1900, but from
the recent census, I calculate it to be only 218,976, a difference of
6,342. This shows that the rate of increase or decrease of the
population of a particular place during any intercensal period, when
applied to a subsequent period, may give quite an erroneous result,
so that such calculations must always be regarded as a very
approximate estimate, especially as we recede from the year of census.
With an acreage of 3,292 acres, the population gives a density of
66.5 persons per acre.
The density varies from 44.6 in the North Sub-district, to 99.5
persons per acre in the South-West District.