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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 1887
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1887
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TABLE III.
Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density
of Population per Acre for the Year 1887 and Ten Years
preceding.
Corrected Gross Numbers.
| The Year. | Estimated Population | Marriages | Registered Births | Corrected Number or Deaths. | Density of Population per Acre. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total all Ages. | Under One Year. | Under Five Years. | |||||
| 1887 | 226,000 | 1466 | 6715 | 3751 | 912 | 1577 | 55.3 |
| 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 | 51.1 |
| 1884 | 205,400 | 1433 | *6827 | 3700 | 880 | 1510 | 52.3 |
| 1885 | 210,600 | 1496 | 6585 | 3682 | 897 | 1555 | 53.5 |
| 1886 | 217,600 | 1466 | 6666 | 3693 | 954 | 1544 | 55.3 |
| Means for the 10 years -1877—86. ) | 190,238 | 1463 | 6346 | 3483 | 845 | 1451 | 48.3 |
*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
Hacknev 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 nonresidents
that have been registered in the District.