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Hackney 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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closets. Against this amount of £114 2s. 2d. has to be credited
the sum of £30 10s. 6d., received for disinfection from those
who could afford to pay. In addition to this expenditure there
were £42 1s. 7d. paid for disinfectants used for the gullies,
urinals, and offensive accumulations. The same men were
employed in disinfecting the gullies which are estimated at 2400
in number; in removing and burying dead cats and dogs
thrown on the streets and waste ground, fish offal and other
offensive matter, and also in cleansing and tarring the urinals.
The whole of the disinfection of articles of clothing, and the
fumigation of rooms were carried out under the supervision of
Mr. Thomas, Inspector of Nuisances, no part of whose salary is
included in the cost of disinfection, and the time occupied by
the men in other work than disinfection was deducted from their
whole time, so that all their wages is not placed to the disinfection
account.
Having briefly referred to the mortality from diarrhœa,enterie
fever and small.pox, I shall now discuss the general statistics of
the district, including the population, the births and deaths, as
well as the special diseases by which the deaths were caused.

Table III.—Hackney District, 1869.78.

Estimated Population, on July 1st.Density of Population per acre.Births.. Deaths corrected.Marriages.No. of Births to 1000 Population
1869116,26929.639132520110933.7
1870120,98630.840292356110233.3
1871125,88631.94.842820118133.2
1872129,66632.944012506127833.2
1873133,89634044312594127633.2
1874139,02035.347552799127134.7
1875145,14436.949702948141535.1
1876152,64838.754692825142536.3
1877160,00040.755553092148534.7
1878169,75042.559403392144135.6

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 deaths in the Small Pox and Fever
Hospitals, in the German Hospital and City of London Workhouse, which are
situate in the Hackney District; also for the proportion of deaths in other
Metropolitan Hospitals.