Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Queen's Road, Dalston; Tottenham Square (13 houses);
Kossuth Terrace; Portland Place (14 houses); Pawnbrokers'
Lane, Union Court, and Mason's Court, Stoke Newington;
High Street, Lower Homerton; Pleasant Row (9 houses); Eliza
Cottages, Shacklewell; Silk Mill Row; De Beauvoir Terrace;
Jerusalem Gardens, Ebenezer Place, Shacklewell; William
Street; Blenheim Terrace, Mortimer Road; James Place;
Kingsland Row; Clarence Terrace, Clapton; Hindle Street;
Samuel Row, John Street.
During the quarter 26 deaths have been registered as being
from Fever. Several of these deaths however were not caused by
Fever, but by various secondary diseases. Fever has chiefly
prevailed in West Hackney, as the following list of Streets in
which it has occured shows:—Hill Street, Clapton; Park Road,
Dalston; Temple Street; Homerton Row; Melina Road; Wick
Road; Theresa Place; Hertford Road; Beauvoir Crescent;
Ebenezer Place; Hindle Street; Rectory Villas; Blenheim
Terrace; Cambridge Terrace; Castle Street; Rock Place;
Tottenham Road; 3 deaths in the East London Union; 1 in
the German Hospital; and 1 in the Workhouse.
The mortality for the whole of London was almost as great as
in 1860, and about the same as in 1861. In Hackney the
number of deaths were much less than 1861, as 474 deaths only
m ere registered this year, against 509 in 1861. If the number
in 1861 be corrected for increase of population, it would be 529
against 474 for this year.
There were 699 births against the 474 deaths. Of the 699
births, 366 were male, and 333 female children; whilst of the
474 deaths, 231 were males, and 243 females. There were 50
births in Stoke Newington sub-district; 34 in Stamford Hill;
215 in West Hackney, 271 in Hackney, and 129 in South
Hackney sub-districts. There were also 33 deaths in Stoke
Newington; 22 in Stamford Hill; 115 in West Hackney; 226
in Hackney (of which 46 happened in the East London Union,
and German Hospital); and 78 in South Hackney.