London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1890
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1890
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE VII.
| Year. | Stoke Newington | Stamford Hill. | West Hackney. | Hackney. | South Hackney. | Totals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 360 | 148 | 678 | 1728 | 700 | 3614 |
| 1882 | 379 | 175 | 625 | 1698 | 628 | 3505 |
| 1883 | 369 | 176 | 659 | 1646 | 695 | 3545 |
| 1884 | 361 | 172 | 645 | 1827 | 695 | 3700 |
| 1885 | 424 | 196 | 621 | 1759 | 650 | 3650 |
| 1886 | 374 | 250 | 652 | 1656 | 732 | 3670 |
| 1887 | 407 | 221 | 692 | 1710 | 721 | 3751 |
| 1888 | 398 | 220 | 620 | 1703 | 705 | 3646 |
| 1889 | 360 | 195 | 603 | 1562 | 632 | 3352 |
| 1890 | 445 | 258 | 708 | 1911 | 748 | 4070 |
The deaths assigned to each sub-divison are approximative
only as the Union Workhouse and Infirmary, the City of
London Union, the Asylum's Boards and German Hospital,
and the Mortuary are in the Hackney sub-district. As many of
the addresses of persons dying outside the district are not
given in the returns, and also of many persons dying in the Infirmary
and in the River Lee, the deaths cannot be fairly distributed
amongst the other sub-districts. It is true that the population of
these institutions are included in the population of the Hackney
sub-district, and therefore would to a certain extent counterbalance
the percentages of deaths above worked out. As the
number of deaths was so much larger for the whole district, it
was to be expected there would also be an increase in each
sub-division. As will be seen this is the case, as the excess
over 1889 in Stoke Newington was 85; in Stamford Hill 63;
in West Hackney 105; in Hackney 349; and in South Hackney
116.