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Accepting then the enumerated population of Hackney to have
been 213,044 on the 29th of March, 1896, and the annual rate of
increase during the preceding five years to have been 2,887 persons,
I estimate the population of Hackney to be 213,766 at the middle of
1896. The density calculated from the above total is equal to 64.7
persons per acre. Table III. gives these data worked out for each
of the Eegistration sub-districts.
Table III.—Showing estimated Population, Area, and Density of
Registration Sub-Districts in Hackney at middle of 1896.
Stamford
Hill.
West
Hackney
Hackney
South
Hackney
Totals
for
Hackney.
Estimated Population
20,601
43,507
105,102
44,557
213,766
Area in square acres
613
467
1,749
470
3,299
Density=persons per acre
33.6
93.1
60.0
94.80
64.7
Marriages.—The number of marriages solemnized in the
Hackney district during the year 1896 was 1694. This is an
increase of 150 upon the number for 1895. The marriage rate for
the year is therefore 16.3 per 1,000 living persons.
Births.—The births registered in the district during the year
1896 numbered 6,422, of which 3,256 were males, and 3,166 females,
being a total increase of 28 births on the number for 1895. The
rate for the former year is therefore 30.0 per 1,000 living persons.
This birth-rate is slightly lower than that for all London—the latter
being 30-2 per 1,000. There has been an increase in all the subdistricts,
but most marked in Stamford Hill—the rate here having
been only 15-3 per 1,000 in 1895.
*Illegitimacy.—By permission of the Registrar General, I have
been supplied with the number of illegitimate births registered in
Hackney during 1896. The total number was 275. These, as may
be seen in the following table, were distributed very unequally in
the four registration sub-districts, the lowest rate being 11 per 1,000
births in South Hackney; and the highest 68 per 1,000 births in
*I have here to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Tom Hosgood, Superintendent
Registrar, who has kindly abstracted for me the number of marriages and illegitimate births for
the year 1896.