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REPORT.
To The Board of Work for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The Registrar General of Births and Deaths states, in the Report for this
Quarter, .That the total number of deaths was not so great as in the same
Quarter of 1859, but greater than in that of 1860. In the last Quarter
fever, under various designations—typhus, typhoid, low continued fever,
and scarlatina—prevailed extensively in many parts of the country..
These remarks precisely apply to the sanitary condition of the Hackney
District during this Quarter, as the mortality was 412 from all causes, of
which 104 were registered as being from zymotic diseases, including
26 from fever. I have made enquiries respecting the deaths of most of
those registered as being from fever, but could not detect any special
cause, in many instances, to account for the mortality. In many cases
I should not have tabulated the deaths under this head, but rather under
that of one of the acute diseases of the lungs or brain ; but did not consider
myself justified in thus classifying them, as similar deaths have hitherto
been registered as from fever. In some instances we found the premises
in a bad state as regards drainage, when notices were served requiring the
owners to remove the nuisances existing. The disease appeared in various
parts of the District, but the only localities in which several case6 appeared
were those which were badly drained—as in the vicinity of Margaret.
street, Stamford.hill; Morpeth.road, Victoria.park; and Sanford.lane.
As regards Margaret.street, I have brought up two reports on the subject,
the sewer being too superficial to drain the. houses; in Morpeth.road a