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than in the year 1858. A.mong these, 1148 were of the
maie and 1125 of the Female Sex. Placing side by side the
death estimates of London and Bethnal Green, the former
gives a per centage of 2.229 and the latter of 2.127. Proportionally
to population these signify one death in each 45
and 47 persons; the minimum being in favour of Bethnal
Green. Tested by the corrected average of the preceding
10 years, our mortality was lower by 130. Tested however
by 17 deaths per 1000—the rate of the dwellers in certain of
England's most healthy spots where the mean lifetime is 49
—it " exhibits" on our part 4 ''degrees of insalubrity," or
the quota of avertible deaths. Nevertheless in one of our
Sub-Districts, that of Hackney Road, this healthy rate was
reached, and the deaths to the 1000 were only 17.05. Table
2 contrasts the loss by every disease in 1858 and 1859. It
shows that Affections in the several Classes of Dropsy, the
Brain, the Respiratory Organs, the Stomach, Malformation,
Premature Birth and Debility, Atrophy, Old Age and Violent
Death, were most destructive in 1858; that (with the exception
of the Kidneys) the residue of the Classes devoted to
Zymotic, Heart, Childbirth, Joint, Skin and Sudden Death
Diseases carried off the greatest numbers in 1859, and that
Diseases of the Kidneys were co-equal in each year.
Descending from classes to certain individual diseases in
1859, Consumption killed 266, Diarrhoea 187, Pneumonia
170, Scarlatina and Diphtheria 157, Tabes or ''Mesenteric
Consumption" 131, Bronchitis 118, Small Pox 111, Convulsions
95, Typhus 71, Teething 57, Measles 56, Whooping
Cough 55, and Water on the Brain 33. Altogether these
amount to 1507 deaths, whereof 993 were under 5 years of
age.
The Zymotic Group—which, besides the Epidemics, includes
the loss of 12 by Croup, of 23 by Puerperal and
Rheumatic Fevers, and of 13 by Erysipelas—formed about