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Hackney 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Sanitary Offices,
Town Hall, Hackney,
May, 1875.
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY STATE OF THE HACKNEY DISTRIC
FOR THE YEAR, 1874.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
I regret to say that the public health of the district
has not been quite so good this year as in 1872 and 1873, but
still the death rate is not so high as for all London. The
increased mortality for Hackney was caused ehiefty by the slight
outbreak of Scarlet Fever, and especially by the extremely cold
weather which occurred at the latter end of the year, but as I
shall refer to this in another part of my report, I shall pass on
without further comment to discuss Table I.