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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1888
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1888
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| In Year. | Birth Rate per 1000 of the Population. | Birth Rate per 1000 of the Population. | Corrected Death Rate per 1000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year, per 1000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under 5 years per 1000 of Total Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | Hackney | Hackney | London. | Hackney | London. | Hackney | Hackney | |
| 477 | ||||||||
| 1883 | ||||||||
| MEANS. | ||||||||
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The diminution in the birth rates, not only in Hackney
but for the whole of London since 1879. is shown in the above
table not only to have been gradually accelerated year by
year, but so far as Hackney District is concerned, to have
progressed more rapidly in 1888. Thus the mean birth rate in
each of the decennial periods since 1851 was 31.8 in 1851.60;
33.8 in 1861-70; and 34.7 in 1871-80. It reached as high as
36.0 in 1879, and then declined in the following years to 35.1,