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Illegitimate
Sub-District Births.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Hackney Eoad 6 10 16
Green 3 34 67
Church 9 6 15
Town 11 7 18
59 57 116
The above apportions us only 28 Births out of wedlock in
every 1000; while, "in all England the proportion of Illegitimate
Births amounts to about 65 per 1000 of all the
Births; in the City it reaches to only 30 per 1000." Of the
"Newly Born," so often found in our Canal and Park, some
no doubt are born elsewhere;—these will therefore exonerate
us from some of the crimes that are hidden there.
Bethnal Green, in 1862, attained the unenviable mortality
of 2537; a mortality lower indeed by 409 than in the Cholera
year 1849, but higher by 100 than when Cholera prevailed
in 1854. It figured also 38 higher than its average for the
last ten years. One death afflicted every 42 of the inhabitants
of Bethnal Green, every 42.57 in London, every 38 78 in
the Central Districts of the Metropolis, and every 38.58 in
the East Districts in which we live.
The Causes of Death in the Obituary Table (No. 2) show,
when compared with the totals of 1861, that we owe our
high rate of death to the increased fatality of the Zymotic
and Tubercular Classes of Disease.
The first of these, which contains the Epidemics, enumerates
a loss of 783. As the epidemic frequency is "a most
important testimony to the salubrity or insalubrity of a
district," I cannot but regret that it told strongly against us
last year.
Small Pox was fatal in 16 cases, or to 12 infants under five,
to 1 at sixteen, and to 3 at twenty-one, twenty-six, and