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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 1889

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1889

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TABLE I.
Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density
of Population per acre for the Tear 1889 and Ten Years
preceding.

Table: Corrected Gross Numbers.

Corrected Gross Numbers.

The Tear.Estimated Population on July 1st.MarriagesRegistered BirthsCorrected Number or Deaths.Density of Population per Acre.
Total all Ages.Under One Year.Under Five Years.
1889246,114160666743352716123762.5
1879174,350144062073285770129844.5
1880181,538142563313321918158646.2
1881188,240149463773614832154347.8
1882195,200148864233505768145149.6
1883200,200145865023545816140251.1
1884205,4001433*68273700880151062.3
1885210,600149665853682897155553.6
1886217,600146666663693954156455.3
1887226,010146667153751912157757.4
1888234,156147265113646819149359.6
Means for the 10 years 1878—87.203,369146466143574857149752.0

Table: *Registered in 63 weeks.

*Registered in 63 weeks.

18711881
Population at Census (April 1st)124,951186,400
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census19,34727,603
No. of Persons on an average in each Inhabited House at do.6.466.78
Total No. of Acres3,9353,936
No. of Acres of Water and Open Spaces, chiefly on the borders of the District66868

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NOTE.— The Deaths are corrected by adding on the Deaths of Inhabitants in the Smallpox
and Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital, which are situate in the Hackney District,
and also the Deaths in other Metropolitan and the Asylums Board's Hospitals outside the
District, and by taking out the Deaths of all non. registered in the District.