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Hackney 1888

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1888

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TABLE IX.

The Deaths Registered at different Ages from all causes during the Tears1878.88,the Deaths of Non.Residents in the Fever and Small Pox Hospitals being excluded, but of Inhabitants in Hospitals and other Public Institutions outside the District being included.

YEARS.AGES AT DEATH.
0 11 5515152525 3535 4545 5555 6565 7575 8585 and upwards.Totals.
cot Totals819674180148160252283337418293823646
21 Per cents22.518.54.94.14.46.97.79.211.58.02.3100
Per cent8.188723.517.74.14.05.36.77.710.310.68.12.0100
Ditto 188625.81604.44.75'56.87.29.010.57.92.2100
Ditto 188524.318.84.74.25.76.47.68.510.98.01.9100
Ditto 188423.817.06.35.96.96.87.68.98.26.71.9100
Ditto 188,323.016.54.54.66.37.78.39.210.67.61.7100
Ditto 188221.219.56.64.3607.57.88.39.36.721100
Ditto 188123.019.76.55.56.76.76.67.110.36.61.3100
Ditto 188027.717.14.14.66.77.26.68.19.07.01.9100
Ditto 187923.416.14.64.26.07.98.89.610.86.81.8100
Ditto 187825.316.24.95.75.87.57.38.99.57.01.9100
Per cents. of deaths 1876.8524.416.95.25.16.47.27.58.69.77.11.9100
Ditto 1866.7524.315.75.15.37.17.37.48.09.87.82.2100
Ditto 1856.6521.016.46.15.l6.97.27.3S.910.98.02.2100

As the births have diminished, the proportion of deaths
under 1 year of age has of course been smaller, so that the
table shows a lower rate at this age period than for several
years past. I do not intend to convey the idea that the death
rate under 1 year varies only with the number of births; on the
contrary, it depends very materially on the variations in the
temperature, cold weather causing an excessive number of