On the comparative healthiness of the parish of Hackney / [Samuel Roper].

  • Roper, Samuel
Date:
1842
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Credit: On the comparative healthiness of the parish of Hackney / [Samuel Roper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at Kensington 141, and at Islington ‘144. In the unclassified diseases on the other hand, Hackney treads closely on the mean, viz., '613 to *619, being: surpassed in this respect by many of the other dis¬ tricts which, nevertheless, fall greatly behind it in the enumerated classes of diseases. This striking superiority of Hackney, as a healthy locality, is abundantly confirmed by another Table, {vide p. 244 of the same Report,) which, as it extends over a longer period, may be appealed to as still more satisfactory evidence even than that which has been previously adduced. This Table shows the mean annual mortality of females in the metropolitan dis¬ tricts, during the two years and a half, ending 31st December, 1839. The districts are divided into three classes, according to their relative mortality, the mean rate per cent, in the ten highest being 2*936,—in the ten medium districts, 2*495,—and in the ten lowest, 1*961,—Hackney being the lowest of all, viz., 1*728. To accumulate more testimony upon this point would be altogether superfiuous after such unimpeachable statements. The annual mortality of Hackney having already been shown to be one in every 60 persons, or more accurately perhaps, one in 55, it may now be interest¬ ing to compare it with that of many cities, whose position, under clearer skies and warmer suns, seems to render them more attractive residences; but which
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