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Hackney 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1898
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Illegitimacy.—The illegitimate births recorded in Hackney
during 1898 numbered 291. This is a decrease of 169 upon the
number for 1897, and is equal to an illegitimate birth-rate of 45.2
per 1,000 births. From the above total, 135 must be deducted to
get the true rate, as this was the number of births which occurred
in the Salvation Army Rescue Home amongst persons brought into
Hackney from other parts of the country. After making this
correction, I calculate the true illegitimate birth-rate for Hackney to
be 24.3 per 1,000 births.
Table II.—
| Registra tion District of Hackney. | Registration Sub-Districts. | All London. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North. | Central. | South West. | South East. | |||
| Total No. of Births | 6,445 | 1,110 | 1,464 | 1,93S | 1,933 | 132,432 |
| Rate per 1000 living | 29.4 | 22.4 | 307 | 30.6 | 32.7 | 29.5 |
| No. of Illegitimate Births | 122 | |||||
| Rate per 1000 Births | 24.3 | |||||
Deaths.—The deaths recorded in Hackney during 1898
numbered 3,855, but amongst these were 502 deaths amongst
persons not residents of Hackney; and on the other hand there
were 278 deaths of Hackney residents in places outside of the
district. After correcting for these the total becomes 3,631, which
give a corrected death-rate of 16.4 per 1,000 living persons. This,
after a further correction for age and sex distribution by means of
the factor 1.04645 becomes the true death-rate of 17.1 per 1,000
living persons. South East Hackney has the highest rate 22.5, and
North Hackney the lowest I2.0 per 1,000 living persons. The
death-rate for the whole district is slightly lower than that for 1897,
the latter having been 17.8 per 1,ooo.