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German Hospitals are in this sub-district, and after the most
careful distribution of the deaths, some must have been
assigned to the wrong sub-district. This does not matter
much, as I have not deduced any result or calculated any
percentages from the figures. The numbers assigned to each
sub-district cannot be far wrong, as the proportion of births to
each 100 deaths in Stoke Newington was 218; in Stamford
Hill 208; in West Hackney 198; in Hackney 188; and in
South Hackney 208. As the hospitals and two large unions
are in Hackney Sub-district, and very few births occur in them,
the proportions to births and deaths are about what might have
been expected. There is also another reason for the deaths in the
Hackney Sub-district being somewhat in excess, viz., because as
the mortuary is in the sub-district, and all persons found drowned,
or who died otherwise without being claimed (but few in
number) are included in the deaths for this sub-district.
Disinfection. — The number of houses and articles disinfected
during the year has varied to a certain extent during
the last four years, but it will be greater in 1890, in consequence
of the Infectious Diseases Notification Act. Since
the cessation of small-pox, the total number of other cases
reported here has not altered much during any year.