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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hackney 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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TABLE I.
Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and
Density of Population per Acre for the Year 1884, and
Ten Years preceding.

Table: CORRECTED GROSS NUMBERS.

CORRECTED GROSS NUMBERS.

The Year.Estimated Population.Marriages.Registered Births. *Corrected Number of Deaths.Density of Population per Acre.
Total all Ages.Under One Year.Under Five Years.
1884205,400143368273700880151062.3
1874139,02012714755279961685336.3
1875145,14414154970294872396736.9
1876152,64814255469282577398738.7
1877160,000148555623092756121240.7
1878167,250144159783392858140842.5
1879174,350144062073285770129844.5
1880181,538142563313321918158646.2
1881188,240149463773614832151347.8
1882195,200148864233505768145149.6
1883200,200145865023545816140251.1
Average of 10 Years, 1874—84.170,359143458573233788127143.3

Table: * Registered in 63 weeks.

* Registered in 63 weeks.

1871.1881.
Population at Census124,951186,400
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census19,34727,503
No. of Persons on an average in each Inhabited House at do.6.466.78
Total No. of Acres3,9353.936
No. of Acres of Water and Open Spaces568568

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* NOTE.—The Deaths are corrected by adding on the Deaths of Inhabitants in the Small-pox
and Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital, which are situate in the Hackney District, and also
the Deaths in other Metropolitan and the Asylums Board's Hospitals outside tho District, and by
taking out the deaths of all non-residents.