London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE VII,
Showing the decennial mean numbers in the years 1841-80,
of the births and deaths; of the ratios of births to deaths; of births to population; of deaths under 1 yeah to total births; of deaths from "all causes," and from the seven most fatal zymotic diseases to 1000 population; also the same for each year during 1872-81,
| Years. | Number of births. | Number of deaths Corrected | No. of births to each 100 deaths. | No. of births to 1000 population. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 births. | Death-rate per 1000 population. | Death-rate per 1000 population from seven principal epidemic diseases. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackney | Hackney | Hackney | Hackney | Hackney | London | Hackney | London | England | London | Hackney | |
| 1872 | 4401 | 2487 | 174 | 38.2 | 149 | 158 | 19.3 | 21.5 | 3.98 | 3.83 | 3.77 |
| 1873 | 4481 | 2594 | 171 | 38.2 | 151 | 160 | 19.1 | 22.5 | 2.92 | 3.39 | 2.85 |
| 1874 | 4775 | 2799 | 170 | 34.7 | 139 | 156 | 20.0 | 22.6 | 3.64 | 3.30 | 2.76 |
| 1875 | 4970 | 2948 | 168 | 35.1 | 146 | 162 | 20.6 | 23.8 | 3.44 | 3.87 | 3.17 |
| 1876 | 5469 | 2825 | 193 | 35.8 | 139 | 157 | 18.5 | 22.2 | 3.11 | 3.59 | 3.25 |
| 1877 | 5555 | 3492 | 179 | 34.7 | 136 | 146 | 19.3 | 21.9 | 2.71 | 3.48 | 3.36 |
| 1878 | 5940 | 3892 | 175 | 35.6 | 144 | 164 | 20.2 | 23.5 | 3.32 | 4.10 | 3.74 |
| 1879 | 6812 | 3285 | 192 | 36.0 | 122 | 148 | 18.8 | 23.1 | 2.44 | 3.83 | 2.29 |
| 1880 | 6462 | 3821 | 194 | 35.1 | 142 | 158 | 18.3 | 22.2 | 3.30 | 3.70 | 2.89 |
| 1881 | 6377 | 3614 | 176 | 33.9 | 130 | 148 | 19.2 | 21.2 | 2.24 | 3.60 | 4.86 |
| Means 1871 —80 | 5250 | 2956 | 176 | 34.7 | 142 | 158 | 19.6 | 22.6 | 3.36 | 3.83 | 3.40 |
| 1861 -70 | 8440 | 2182 | 156 | 33.8 | 143 | 162 | 20.37 | 24.43 | 4.11 | 4.79 | 3.78 |
| 1851 —60 | 2223 | 1391 | 159 | 31.8 | 128 | 155 | 19.14 | 23.77 | 3.87 | 4.55 | 3.56 |
| 1841 —50 | 1398 | 946 | 146 | 28.3 | 157 | 19.18 | 24.77 | 3.64 | 4.44 | Separate statiscts not kept | |
This table shows, perhaps more strongly than any other, the
movement of the population of Hackney since 1841, as the mean
annual number of births for the 10 years, 1841-50, was only
1,398, whilst it was 5,250 in 1871-80, and 6,377 in 1881. The