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REPORT
To the Board of Works of Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The Quarterly Reports which have already been printed by order
of the Board, contain an account of the most important sanitary measures
carried out during the year, and the statistics of the district, so that it
only remains for me, with one exception, to lay before you the sanitary
statistics for the year as a whole.
I propose, in the first place discussing a table which shews the
number of births in each sub-district during each Quarter of the Year,
and the per centages for the Year. By this we see that there were 173
births or 6.7 per cent, in Stoke Newington sub-district; 157 or 6.1 per
cent, in Stamford Hill ; 817 or 31'8 per cent, in West Hackney; 943
or 36.7 per cent, in Hackney; and 480 or 18.7 percent, in South
Hackney sub-district.
These per centages vary but little from those of 1858, the chief difference
being a relative increase in the Stamford Hill sub-district, and a
relative decrease (but absolute increase in number) in the West Hackney
sub-district.
The total number of births in the District during the year were 2570
against 2454 in the year 1858. There were also 1563 deaths in the
district during 1859 against 1629 in 1858, so that whilst in 1858 the excess
of births over deaths was only 825, during 1859 it was no less than
1107, or 156 births to each 100 deaths in 1858, and 164 births to each
100 deaths in 1859. This is an extremely satisfactory evidence of the
good health of this District, and especially when compared with the whole