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Hackney 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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great difference in the number of inhabitants must now exist as
compared with 1861 in the various Sub-Districts.
1861 & 67.—Per Centages of Births in each Sub-District
| Per centages. | Births. | Stoke Newingtn. | Stamford Hill. | West Hackney. | Hackney. | South Hackney. | Totals. |
| 1867 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 24.4 | 39.4 | 26.5 | 100 | |
| 1857.66. | 6.3 | 5.2 | 28.9 | 38.7 | 20.9 | 100 | |
| 1861 | 6.2 | 4.6 | 29.8 | 39.7 | 19.7 | 100 | |
| Popultn. 1861 | 7.9 | 6.6 | 29.2 | 37.8 | 18.5 | 100 |
This table shows that as compared with population the
birth-rate of Stoke Newington has been below the mean during
the whole of the period 1857-67; and that it was less in 1867
than in 1861. That this variation has arisen from its population
not keeping pace with some of the other districts, and not
from a diminution of population, is shown by the number of
births in 1861 having been 172, and in 1867, 209. A similar
remark applies to the Stamford Hill sub-district, which presents
a smaller per centage for 1867, viz., 4.3, than at any other
period, whilst the total births have increased from 128 in 1861
to 166 in 1867. The population in West Hackney has also
considerably declined; viz., from 29.8 per cent. in 1861, to 24.4
per cent. in 1867; whilst the total number of births have
increased from 818 in 1861, to 941 in 1867. In Hackney the
per centage is larger in 1867 than for the ten years, 1857-66,
but a little below the per centage of 1861, when it was 39.7
against 39.4. The number of births has greatly increased in
Hackney, having been 920 in 1857, 1093 in 1861, and no less