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ponding quarter of this year, and therefore shows that Hackney has been
more healthy than the metropolis at large.
Of the 565 births, 213 occurred in Hackney sub-district, 37 in Stamford
Hill, 36 in Stoke Newington, 181 in West Hackney, and 98 in South
Hackney ; and of the 318 deaths, 145 were registered in Hackney District
(of which 31 happened in the East London Union), 18 in Stamford Hill,
24 in Stoke Newington, 88 in West Hackney, and 43 in South Hackney
sub-districts.
Of the 318 deaths from all causes, 41 resulted from 5 epidemic diseases,
viz. 10 from measles, 2 from scarlet fever, 16 from hooping-cough, 4 from
diarrhoea, and 9 from typhus ; not one having occurred from small-pox.
The ages at which death took place were as follows:— 61 in children
under 1 year of age ; 86 in persons above 1 and under 20 years of age;
45 in those who were between 20 and 40 ; 50 in those between 40 and
60; no less than 58 in individuals who were above 60 and under 80 ;
and 18 above 80 years.
Of the total deaths, 48 resulted from zymotic and 69 from tubercular
diseases ; 55 from affections of the lungs, 25 from old age, and 9 from
violent deaths.
The mean pressure of the atmosphere was less than usual, having been
equal to a column of mercury 29.859 inches high ; the highest temperature
registered during the quarter was 85.4°, and the lowest 31.2°,
a range of 54.2°: the mean of all the highest for each week was 71.9°,
and of the lowest 39.8° ; the average of the highest temperature for each
week was 64.9°, and of the lowest 45.0°; and the mean daily range
19.9°: that of Greenwich being 21.5°. The mean temperature of the
quarter was 53.3°, that of Greenwich being 53.8°, and the excess of heat,
compared with the average of 43 years, was 1.8°.
The mean dew-point temperature was 43.9°; the mean humidity of the
atmosphere 69.6 ; saturation being 100, and the average weight of a
cubic foot of air was 538.9 grains. The mean daily amount of ozone was
1.8 (10 representing the maximum), having been above four times as much
as in the quarter ending Saturday, March 28th. The rain fall was 4.31
inches only in Hackney, and 4.7 inches in Greenwich ; which is 2.7 inches
less than the average.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN W. TRIPE.
August 8th, 1857.