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Weaveresses who also died, their united deaths were 164,
or 12 in Sub-District Hackney Road, 79 in the Green,
47 in the Church, and 26 in the Town.—Of these, 8 or nearly
5 per cent. were cut off by Epidemics—31 or just upon 19
per cent. by Consumption—and 125 by other causes. Among
the latter, 2 perished by Fire, in Anchor Street, 2 committed
Suicide, and 2 were "Found Dead" in bed. Their mean
age at death was 54:—58 of them lived beyond 70, 17 above
80, and 1 over 90 years of age. The next Table, No. 7,
shows the life-differences in our 4 Sub-Districts, namely, the
numbers, male and female, of those who died in each; the
causes of death; and the ages at which the deaths occurred.
Supposing our population to have increased since the Census
at the preceding decennial rate, it amounted in the middle of
1857 to 102,673; or 26,685 in Hackney Road, 29,276 in the
Green, 25181 in the Church, and 21531 in the Town. And
according to the ratios of 1851, our "vital forces," or ages of
the living, comprised 15124 under 5 years ; 12831 between
5—10; 20491 between 10—20; 31655 at 20—40; 16902 at
40—60; 5297 at 60—80; 372 at 80—100; and beyond the
age of 100, 1. On the above populations the death percentages
would be respectively :—in Hackney Road, 1978 ; in
the Green, 2 906; in the Church, 1.949; and in the Town,
T950 : and the densities of the people to each acre, 189, 75,
191, and 224. If, however, the population be " approximatively
represented by the excess of births over deaths," it
would amount only to 99,433 ; but as ours is not a stationary
population, (some hundreds of houses having been built since
the Census,) the increase has, probably, quite equalled the
antecedent decennial rate. Testing the health of each SubDivision
by the fatality of the Zymotic, Tubercular, and
Respiratory classes of Disease, the Hackney Road suffered
358 deaths, or 134 in every 10,000 persons ; the Green 521,
or 178; the Church 330, or 132; and the Town 291, or 135
deaths in each myriad of populatiou. Taking, too, the death