[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney].

  • Hackney (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1873
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. To the Board of Works for the Hackney District. Gentlemen, I propose in this report to lay before you not only the sanitary state of the District during 1872, and the work carried on by myself and staff, but also to tabulate the births and deaths for some years past, and to discuss some of the tables and data set out in the two volumes of the Census lately published by the Registrar General's department. The mortality during the year has been unusually small, although there were a very large number of deaths from small pox, and, as I foretold last year, a comparatively large number from measles. This has arisen partly in consequeuce of the mortality from scarlet fever having been the smallest which has been registered since the framing of the Metropolis Local Management Act, due allowance being made for increase of population. I stated in my last report that I expected a very small mortality from scarlet fever in 1872 and 1873, and so far my expectations have been verified. The total number of deaths registered in this district during 1872, exclusive of 303 non-residents who died in the small-pox and fever hospitals at Homerton, was 2,487, which, allowing the number of inhabitants