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In Table I., 753 Deaths which were registered
during the quarter, are classified according to ages and
the causes of death. In the corresponding quarter of
1856, the deaths amounted to 677, shewing an excess
of 87 deaths during the quarter just ended. Part of
this excess may be accounted for by increase of population.
Assuming that the population has increased at
the rate of 3 per cent, per annum, an assumption which
is warranted by the progress of Shoreditch during the
last twenty years, this would still leave a large balance
of loss to be accounted for by greater proportional
sickness. If we compare the mortality-tables of the two
quarters for an elucidation, we shall find that against
198 deaths from the six principal epidemics which occurred
in 1856, there stand 238 deaths in 1857, a difference
of 90.