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Hackney 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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REPORT
To the Board for Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The Registrar General of births, deaths, and marriages in his
Report just published for this quarter states, that "the deaths registered
"in the three months that ended June 30th were 110,878, a larger num"her
than was returned in any previous Juno quarter (1848—59).
"The extent to which life was invaded and destroyed by causes that
"have been described, badness of weather and dearness of food, can
"only be partially discovered by comparing the mortality with an
"average derived from seasons both healthy and unhealthy; but it may
"be stated that the annual rate of mortality last quarter was 2.228 per
"bent of the population." The rate of mortality amongst the inhabitants
of cities was 2.305 per cent per annum, and of rural districts
2.155.
The contrast between the mortality of the whole of England, and
for the Hackney District during this quarter, or even between Hackney
District and the Rural Districts, is singularly in favour of Hackney.
As above stated, the mortality per cent per annum of the whole
of England was 2.228, of Cities 2.305, of Rural Districts 2.155, whilst
in Hackney it was only 1.030, or 1 death to each 61.1 persons residing
within the District. I calculate that the population of Hackney and
Stoke Newington has increased at the rate of 4 per cent per annum,
since 1851, and this calculation is supported by the return of inhabited