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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 1886
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1886
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TABLE I.
Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density of Population per Acre for the Year 1886 and Ten Years preceding, Corrected Gross Numbers.
| The Year. | Estimated Population. | Marriages. | Registered Births. | Corrected Number of Deaths. | Density of Population per Acre. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total all Ages. | Uuder One Year. | Under Five Years. | |||||
| 1886 | 216,000 | 1466 | 6666 | 3693 | 954 | 1544 | 54.7 |
| 1876 | 152,648 | 1425 | 5469 | 2825 | 773 | 987 | 38.7 |
| 1877 | 160,000 | 1485 | 5562 | 3092 | 756 | 1212 | 40.7 |
| 1878 | 167,250 | 1441 | 5978 | 3392 | 858 | 1408 | 42.5 |
| 1879 | 174,350 | 1440 | 6207 | 3285 | 770 | 1298 | 44.5 |
| 1880 | 181,538 | 1425 | 6331 | 3321 | 918 | 1586 | 46.2 |
| 1881 | 188,240 | 1494 | 6377 | 3614 | 832 | 1543 | 47.8 |
| 1882 | 195,200 | 1488 | 6423 | 3505 | 768 | 1451 | 49 6 |
| 1883 | 200,200 | 1458 | 6502 | 3545 | 816 | 1402 | 511 |
| 1884 | 205,400 | 1433 | *6827 | 3700 | 880 | 1510 | 52.3 |
| 1885 | 210,600 | 1496 | 6585 | 3682 | 897 | 1555 | 53.5 |
| Means fur the 10 Years 1876.85. | 183,542 | 1458 | 6226 | 3396 | 826 | 1395 | 46.6 |
* Registered in 53 weeks.
1871. 1881.
Population at Census 124,951 186,400
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census 19,347 27,503
No. of Persons on an average in each Inhabited House at do. 6.46 6.78
Total No. of Acres 3,935 3,935
No. of Acres of Water and Open Spaces, chiefly on the
borders of the District 568 568
*NOTE.—The Deaths are corrected by adding on the Deaths of Inhabitants in the Small.pox
and Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital, which are situate in the Hackney District, and also
the Death? in other Metropolitan and the Asylums Board's Hospitals outside the District, and by
takiug out the deaths of all nou.residents that have beeu registered in the District.
In estimating the population I have not added thereto
at the same rate of increase since 1881 as between 1871.81,
because the number of houses unlet has been of late years
larger in proportion than in the former period. The
number of births since 1880 in each year has increased very
slowly, except in 1884, when the births for 53 weeks were
entered against 52 in most other years. This low birth.rate is
not confined to Hackney only, but occurred in London as a
whole, and almost in all England, and has been more marked
still in France. I am not therefore able to check the population