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Hackney 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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The above table shows that the birth rate in proportion to the population
was smallest in Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill sub-districts;
This is what, a priori, have been expected ; as in the wealthier districts
there is always a larger proportion of unmarried persons than in others,
in consequence, chiefly, of the larger number of servants employed.
The totals in each sub-district are as follows—Stoke Newington 167,
Stamford Hill 153 ; West Hackney 780 ; Hackney 920; and South
Hackney 414 ; making an aggregate of 2434 births.
The total number of deaths registered in the quarter was 1484,
against 1361 in 1856, but as 53 weeks were included in the former
year, the number must be reduced to those registered in the first 52
weeks, viz. 1449. If the number of deaths in 1856 be corrected for
increase of population they will be raised to 1426, so that after allowing
for disturbing causes we find a larger number of deaths to have been registered
in Hackney during 1857 than in 1856. The excess was 23.
On comparing the mortality of all London during these two years we
find that in 1856 there were registered 56,786 ; and in 1857, 60,150
deaths. The number 56,786 when corrected for increase of populalation,
and the mortality of 1857 corrected for the 53 weeks, will be
changed into 58,143 for 1856, and 58,719 for 1857, or an excess of
576 deaths in 1857. The increased mortality amounted to nearly 1
per cent, for all London, and was l-6 per cent, for Hackney. A comparison
of the deaths during the two years in Hackney, shows that in 1857
there was an excessive mortality of children under 1 year of age ; and
on refering to the deaths from Hooping-Cough we find an excess (28)
more than sufficient to account for the whole increase. The number of
deaths registered in 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857, corrected for increase
of population, were 1588, 1565, 1426, and 1449.
The mortality in each of the sub-districts was as follows : in Stoke
Newington 120; in Stamford Hill 95; in West Hackney 392 ; in
llackney 678 ;and in South Hackney 199-
Of the 678 deaths in Hackney sub-district 21 ccurred in the East
London Union and the German Hospital.

TABLE II-DEATHS.

Stoke Newn.Stamford. Hill.West Hackney.Hackney.South Hackney.TOTALS
1st31279620253409
2nd24188814543318
3rd402410114948362
4th252610718255395
120953926781991484