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Hackney 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: TABLE I.—Hackney District.

TABLE I.—Hackney District.

Estimated Population on July 1st,Density of Fopulatn. per acre.Births.* Deaths.MarriagesNo. of Births to 100 Deaths
186598,93825.233.5620631183163
1866103,03426.2350823251149151
1867107,30027.3385821791021177
1868111,64328.4397621751123183
1860116,26920.6391325681109152
1870120,98630.8402924061102167
1871125,88631.9418428301181148
1872129,66632.9440125461278173
1873133,56033.9443125941276171
1874137.57134.9475527991271170

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Population at Census 1871 124,951
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census 1871 19,347
No. of Families or separate Occupiers at Census, 1871 26,045
No. of persons on an average in each inhabited house
at Census 1871 6.46
*Note.—The Deaths are corrected so as to allow for the Deaths in the Small Pox and
Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital and City of London "Workhouse, which
are situated in the Hackney District, also for the proportion of Deaths in other
Hospital.
This table shows the population from 1865 to the middle of
1874, calculated on the census returns for 18C1 and 1871. It
will be seen that the increase is nearly 40,000 persons, but is not
quite at the rate which took place in the years 1861-71. The
increase since 1871, has been calculated at a lower rate than for
the ten years 1861-71, because the number of houses assessed to
the poor-rate have not progressed in the same ratio as in the
previous ten years. The rate however, may have been maintained
by a larger number of persons occupying the houses, in which
case the calculated population is too small in number.