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The Parish of backney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1896.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Members of the Hackney Vestry.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my report on the Public Health of Hackney
for the year 1896. The poll-census, which was taken in the first
quarter of the year, has enabled me to present more accurately the
vital statistics of the district. It has also revealed the fact, that the
population of Hackney had been over estimated during the last two
or three years; and enforces the necessity for a quinquennial census,
if we are to avoid any serious errors in estimations of population.
The birth and marriage rates for the year do not show any
falling off on previous years, and the death-rate of 17.1, in spite of
the high mortality of the summer from gastro-intestinal disease,
places Hackney in the front of healthy districts in London. The
mortality rate, of course, varies in different parts of the district; but