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The parish of hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1895,
SANITARY DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Members of the Hackney Vestry.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my report upon the health
of the District of Hackney, for the year 1895. Several features
have rendered the year a most remarkable one. The beginning; of the
year was noted for an almost arctic severity of cold, the temperature
falling many degrees below freezing point. This was succeeded by
a summer of unusual heat and dryness; and these conditions were
aggravated by a failure in the supply of the East London Water
Company. The combined effects of the above circumstances, as I
have remarked, render the year unique from a health point of view;
and it is not surprising that the general death-rate was higher than
that for some years past, and that the infant mortality rate was
much above the average; and on this point it is a singular thing,
that while only 160 children, under one year, died during the first