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or 38.1 per cent. of the whole number. There were 1044 or
25.9 per cent. in South Hackney; 999 or 24.8 per cent. in
West Hackney; 256 or 6'4 per cent. in Stoke Newington, and
195 or 4.8 per cent. in Stamford Hill sub-districts. There
were 585 deaths under one year old registered during the year,
showing a death rate of 145 per 1000 of all the births registered,
against 163 per 1000 for all London, and 183 for 17 large
towns. This is very favourable, as in no one of the 17 large
towns, was so small a rate registered, and as there is no better
test of a good sanitary condition of a district, than a small death
rate amongst infants. Of course the death rate of infants will
not be so large in a wealthy as in a poor district, even if they
are equal in salubrity, because the infants of the wealthier
classes are not exposed to those privations which prove so fatal
to poor children.

There were 2464 deaths registered during the year in this
district, of which 685 occurred in the first quarter, 643 in the
in the fourth, 627 in the third, and only 509 in the second.
The excessive mortality during the early and latter part of this
year, was partly caused by the unusual number of deaths from
scarlet fever, but chiefly from diseases of the respiratory organs.
Of the total deaths, no less than 1123, or 45.6 per cent. were
registered in Hackney sub-district. This excessive proportion