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on May 17th, the maximum mortality (74) on November
22nd. Seven of our inhabitants died every day, 49 every
week, and 211 in each month of the year. Numerically the
Males amounted to 1262 and the Females to 1275. One out
of every 149 deaths was "Not Certified," and to one out of
every 158 "No Medical Attendant" was called. The deathrolls
monthly and yearly of London and Bethnal Green,
with the Epidemic contingencies and the meteorological
characteristics, as observed at Greenwich, constitute the first
Table in the Appendix of this Report.
If our population in 1862 be estimated on a tenth of the
rate from 1851 to 1861, it consisted in April of 106,592
persons; of whom 26,537 occupied the 141 acres of Hackney
Road; 32,612 the 391 acres of the Green; 25,902 the 132
acres of the Church; and 21,541 the 96 acres of the Town.
Divisionally, under five years of age, the numbers amounted
to 15,702; between five and ten, to 13,320; between ten
and twenty, to 21,273; between twenty and forty, to 32,863;
between forty and sixty, to 17,548; between sixty and
eighty, to 5,499; between eighty and a hundred, to 386;
and beyond one hundred years, to 1. They each and all
bear the same ratio to the living as at the Census of 1851.
Besides the still-born, 4052 living Children, or 2057 Boys
and 1995 Girls were registered in the Parish in the year.
They are 27 less than in 1861. The Births exceeded the
Deaths by, and formed a natural increase of 1515. Of these,
1122 occurred in the "Winter, 982 in the Spring, 951 in the
Summer, and 997 in the Autumn. They give a proportion
of 103 Boys to 100 Girls, and of a Birth to the living in
every 26. Throughout London the proportion was 1 in 29.
Where 100 died 160 came into life, and to each 1000 of these
the infantile loss was 323. The Table below represents our
last published Illegitimate list.