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Hackney 1899
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899
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* Illegitimacy.—There were 266 illegitimate births registered
in the district of Hackney during the year 1899, and of these 1.37
were born in the Rescue Homes of the Salvation Army in this district,
of non-Hackney parents. This leaves a total of 129 illegitimate
children amongst Hackney persons, which is equivalent to an
illegitimate birth-rate of nearly 20 per 1,000 births.
Table II. Births.
| Regiistra tion District of Hackney. | Registration Sub-Districts. | All London. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North. | Central. | South West. | South East. | |||
| Total No. of Births | 6,453 | 1,116 | 1,512 | 1,961 | 1,864 | 133,l20 |
| Rate per 1000 living | 29.0 | 22.0 | 31.3 | 30.5 | 31.1 | 29.4 |
| No. of Illegitimate Births | 12.9 | |||||
| Rate per 1000 Births | 20.0 | |||||
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the district
during 1899 was 4,033, but amongst these were 520 of persons from
other districts, and in addition there were 294 deaths of Hackney
residents in outside institutions. After making the necessary corrections,
the deaths properly credited to Hackney number 3,807.
With a population of 222,429 persons this gives a death-rate of
17.11 per 1,000 living. A further correction for age and sex distribution
by means of the factor, 1 04645 gives a true death-rate of
17.9 per living persons. The rate is slightly higher than that for
1898, this latter being 17.1 per 1,000, but the increase is, no
doubt, due to the excess of deaths from summer diarrhoea and
influenza. The rates vary in the different sub-districts, the lowest
being 11.7 per 1,000 in the North, and the highest 24.2 per 1,000 in
the South East sub-district. The following table shews the number of
deaths with corrections in each sub-district with their respective
rates per 1,000.
The mortality-rate for all London for 1899 is 19.8 per 1,000 living
persons.