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NOTE.— The Deaths are corrected by adding on the Deaths of Inhabitants in the Smallpox
and Fever Hospitals, in the German Hospital, which are situate in the Hackney District, and also
the Deaths in other Metropolitan and the Asylums Board's Hospitals outside the District, and by
taking out the Deaths of all non-parishioners.
The population of the district on July 1st was 230,379, which,
as I said before, forms the basis of percentages. The numbers in
the different districts and parishes were so different to those
expected, as to show the necessity for at least a quinquennial
census of all large cities and towns, but even then a large source of
error would remain, as the rate of increase in the first five years
might be much larger in the first than in the second, as occurred
in our district, so that an equal course of population for the ten
years would have been wrong. The births and marriages have
varied considerably, the number of registered births in 1891
having been 6,960, against 6,674 in 1890, and 6,511 in 1889. The
total number of deaths for all London was 90,216 in the year. The
number of inhabited houses, as previously mentioned, has increased,
as well as of the inhabitants living therein, but the difference is
not very large, being only 0.14 per house, or 14 per 100 houses.