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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 1890

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1890

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Table: TABLE I.Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density of Population per acre for the Year1890and Ten Years preceding.CORRECTED GR OSS NUMBERS.

TABLE I.

Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density of Population per acre for the Year1890and Ten Years preceding.

CORRECTED GR OSS NUMBERS.

The Year.Estimated Population on July 1st.MarriagesRegistered BirthsCorrected Number of Deaths.Density of Population per Acre.
Total all Ages.Under One Year.Under Five Years
1890248,619*67304070902161363.2
1880181,538142563313321918158646.2
1881188,240149463773614832154347.8
1882195,200148864233505768145149.6
1883200,200145865023545816140251.1
1884205,4001433*68273700880151052.3
1885210,610149665853682897155553.5
1886217,601146666663693954155455.3
1887226,010146667153751912157757.0
1888234,186147265113646819149359.0
1889241,114160666743352715123761.1
Means for the 10 years 1880-89210,007148065613580851149053.2

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*Registered in 53 weeks.
1871 1881
Population on day of 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 Smallpox
and Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital, which are situate in the Hackney 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 non-parishioners.