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the unusually large mortality from scarlet fever, and partly
from the increase of population. To show the great disturbance
in the death rate from the scarlet fever epidemic, I may mention
that the deaths from cholera in the district in 1866 were only
103, and the deaths from scarlet fever last year 224. As before
stated, the Registrar General calculates our rate of death from
scarlet fever to have been 231 per 100,000 inhabitants, whilst I
believe it to have been only 201 per 100,000 inhabitants. This
difference arises from the population having been calculated at
a much smaller number by him than by myself, and can only
be settled after the census of 1871 has been taken.

By Table 2 we ascertain that the largest mortality occurred
in the fourth, and by far the smallest in the second quarter of
the year; also, that as usual, the largest per-centage of deaths
happened in the Hackney sub-district, and the smallest in
Stamford Hill. The per-centage in the Hackney district is
much larger than usual, but that was caused chiefly by the
great excess of deaths in public institutions, viz., the Union
Workhouse, East London Union Workhouse, and the German
Hospital. These deaths invariably increase the mortality for
the Hackney sub-district far above the rate it should be in
proportion to the population, and I used to deduct these deaths
and distribute the mortality in the Union Workhouse, pro rata