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Hackney 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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instead of about 218,000, which it would have been if the
ordinary increase previously to 1881 had continued. The
number of births points in the same direction, as in 1885 there
were only 6,585 registered in the District against 6,377 in
1881, when the population was 188,240. It is true that the
birth rate for London and all England in 1885 was below the
average of former years, so that I have not been guided entirely
bv the birth rate.

TABLE VI.

Shotting the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density of Population per Acre for the Year1885and Ten Years preceding.

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.
1885210,600149665853682897155553.5
1875145,14414154970294872396736.9
1876152,64814256469282577398738.9
1877160,000148555623092756121240.7
1878167,250144159783392858140842.5
1879174,350144062073285770129844.5
1880181,538142563313321918158646.2
1881188,240149463773614832154347.8
1882195,200148864233505768145149.6
1883200,200145865023545816140251.1
1884205,4001433*68273700880151052.3
Average of 10 Years, 1876—86176,997145060653323809133645.0
* Registered in 58 weeks.
1871.1881.
Population at Census124,95186,400
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 Acres3,93c3,935
No. of Acres of Water and Open Spaces (chiefly on the borders of the District568568

* 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 the District, and by
taking out the deaths of all non-residents.
It will be seen by the table that in 1875 the population
was calculated at 145,144 persons, and that the Census of 1881