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Hackney 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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TABLE I.
H ackney D istrict, 1873-82.
| Estimated Population on July 1st. | Density of Population per acre. | Births. | Deaths corrected. | Marriages. | No. of Births to 1000 Population. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873 | 133,896 | 34.0 | 4431 | 2594 | 1276 | 33.2 |
| 1874 | 139,020 | 35.3 | 4755 | 2799 | 1271 | 34.7 |
| 1875 | 145,144 | 36.9 | 4970 | 2948 | 1415 | 35.1 |
| 1876 | 152,648 | 38.7 | 5469 | 2825 | 1425 | 36.3 |
| 1877 | 160,000 | 40.7 | 5562 | 3092 | 1485 | 34.7 |
| 1878 | 167,250 | 42.5 | 5978 | 3392 | 1441 | 35.5 |
| 1879 | 174,350 | 44.5 | 6207 | 3285 | 1440 | 36.0 |
| 1880 | 181,538 | 46.2 | 6331 | 3321 | 1425 | 35.0 |
| 1881 | 188,240 | 47.8 | 6377 | 3614 | 1494 | 33.9 |
| 1882 | 195,200 | 49.6 | 6423 | 3505 | 1488 | 32.9 |
1871. 1881.
Population at Census 124,951 180,400
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census 19,347 27,503
No. of Families or separate occupiers at Census 26,045 —
No. of Persons on an average in each Inhabited House at do. 6.46 6.78
Total No. of Acres 3,935 —
No. of Acres by Water and Open Spaces 668 568
*** NOTE.—The Deaths arc 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.
The estimated population of the district on July 1st, 1882,
was 195,200, or close upon 200,000, being a very great contrast
to the population at the time of my appointment, when it
consisted of less than 70,000 persons. The density of population
per acre is also rapidly increasing, being now 49.6 for the
whole district—that is to say, including the 568 acres of water
and open spaces, the greatest part of which are situated on our
borders. The number of births still increase, but not in so
great a proportion as in former years, whilst the deaths were
fewer in 1882 than in 1881, owing to the much smaller
number of deaths from infectious diseases, and especially from
diarrhoea. The proportion of births to population being
less than 1880 and 1879, it is possible that the number of
inhabitants is not quite so large as the calculated number. It