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of all the births registered. This excessive rate may be partly
explained by great prevalence of zymotic diseases, as the largest
death rate from those causes occurred in Liverpool, and next in
Bristol, Leicester and Bradford. It is, however, very probable,
that not nearly all the births were registered in Liverpool, and
the calculated proportion between the two is incorrect. There
is indeed so much difficulty in making reliable comparisons of
the death rates of different districts for sanitary purposes, that I
rarely contrast the mortality in Hackney with any other
standard than that of London.
There were registered 376 deaths of children, above 1 and
under 5, or 15.3 per cent.; 147 deaths of children more than 5
and less than 15, or 5.9 per cent.; between the ages of 15 and
25, only 126 deaths, or only 5.3 per cent. were registered. This
was the smallest of any duennial period of life, except between
85 and 95, and at this latter age, I need scarcely observe, that
the number of deaths were very small, because the number of
living were also extremely small. Between 25 and 35 there
were 178 deaths, or 7.2 per cent.; between 35 and 45 there
were 176 deaths, or 7.1 per cent.; between 45 and 55 there
were 193 deaths, or 7.9 per cent.; between 55 and 65 there
were 189 deaths, or 7.8 per cent. The age at which the largest
proportion of adult deaths were registered was between 65 and
75, when there were 261, or 10.6 per cent.; and the number
became much smaller between 75 and 85, when it was 172, or
6.9 per cent., being nearly the same as between 25 and 45.
There were no less than 58 persons who died at the advanced
age of 85-95, and 3 who lived for 95 years and upwards.
The cases of overcrowding which have come under our notice
during the year, have not been so numerous as they formerly
were, but there were several in which not only too many persons
were found in a room, but in which grown-up persons, of different
sexes, occupied the same sleeping apartment. Thus, in
John Street, Cambridge Heath, the grandfather, grandmother,