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number of houses, be sufficient to shew that there are manymore
residents there than in 1881. In West Hackney there
were only 625 deaths in 1882 against 678 in 1881, but this
decrease was caused to a great extent by the diminution in this
year of deaths from diarrhoea, which disease causes ordinarily
more than its fair proportion of deaths in this sub-district. In
Hackney sub-district there were fewer deaths than in 1881,
viz., 1698 against 1728; whilst in South Hackney there were
only 628 deaths against 700 in 1881.
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Board of the Works for the Hackney District.
REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
HACK N EY DISTRICT,
FOR. THE YEAR 1882,
BY
JHON W. TRIPE, M.D,
Member of the Royal College of Physicians,
President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health;
Secretary and formerly President of the Meteorological Society;
Member of Council of the Association for the Advancement of Medicine
by Research,
and Foreign Member of the Societe Frangaise d'Hygiene ;
Author of Essays on Scarlatina, Meteorological Phenomena in connection
with Disease, on Sanitary Statistics, &c.;
Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the District.
LONDON:
A. T. Roberts, Son & Co., Printers, 5, Hackney Road, E.
1883.