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Illegitimate Births and Birth-rate.—The total number of
illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1915
was 404; but of these, I am informed by the Registrar-General.
300 should be transferred to districts outside of Hackney, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 18 births, taking place
in other districts, should be transfer to Hackney. Making
these corrections, there remain 122 illegitimate births amongst
Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an illegitimate birth-rate
of 25.2 per 1,000 births. The illegitimate birth-rate for 1914 was
25.0 per 1,000 births, practically the same as this in 1915.
Deaths.—The deaths registered in the Borough during 1915
numbered 3,402, but of these 723 were deaths of non-residents
dying in institutions and other places in the Borough. There
were, however, 552 residents of Hackney who died, during the year,
in institutions in other districts. On making the necessary corrections,
I find the correct number of deaths amongst Hackney
residents during 1915 was 3,231. This is an increase of 103 upon
the number of deaths occurring during 1914. The general deathrate
from all causes for the year 1915 is 14.8 per 1,000 of the
population. On further correcting this rate for age and sex distribution
by means of the factor 1.0066, I obtain the corrected
general death-rate of 14.9 per 1.000 of the population for the year
1915. Compared with the corrected general death-rate for 1914,
that of 1915 is 1 per 1,000 higher.