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After making the necessary corrections, excluding the deaths of
persons belonging to other parishes, but dying in Hackney, and
including the deaths of Hackney people dying in outside institutions,
I find the recorded annual death-rate for Hackney was 15.48 per
1000, and the corrected death-rate, 16.26 per 1000; whilst the
recorded annual death-rate for Stoke Newington for the first quarter
was 11.82 per 1000.
The rate for Hackney was much lower than that for the previous
year, and is mostly due to a diminution of deaths under five years
of age and at the higher ages. The annual rate for all London for
1894 was 17.8 per 1000.
Infant Mortality.—The deaths registered under one year for
Hackney, were 781; and for Stoke Newington, up to March 25th,
21. The annual infantile mortality for Hackney was, therefore,
128 per 1000 births; and for Stoke Newington, 107 per 1000
births. The Hackney infantile mortality rate was much lower than
that of the previous year. The generally low temperature of the
summer, and a decline in the infectious fevers, contributed largely to
this result. The rate for all London for 1894 was 143 per 1000
births. Compared with this the Hackney rate indicates an improved
sanitary condition.