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The above shows the immense number of infant deaths in the City as
compared with Hackney, both in this quarter and in 1858, and also the
much smaller proportion of deaths of aged people. The death rate of
infants in this District, and also of old people, would be slightly increased
by eliminating the deaths in the German Hospital, as they are chiefly of
persons under 20 and in the prime of life; but the numbers would not be
materially changed.
The births during the quarter have been very large, no less than 682
having been registered, or an excess of 100 over those of the corresponding
quarter last year. Of the 682, 351 were of males and 331 of females.
The numbers registered in each District are as follows, 37 in Stoke
Newington; 39 in Stamford Hill; 230 in West Hackney; 243 in
Hackney; and 133 in South Hackney sub-district.
As the births were 682 in number, and the deaths only 334, there were
more than 200 births (205) to each 100 deaths. In the City there were
only 797 births to 630 deaths, or 121 births to each 100 deaths. This
small proportion of births to deaths, and the large number of infantile
deaths, (which are incompatible with a good sanitary state of a district)
assure me that the death rates assigned by the Medical Officer of Health
for the City are erroneous; and that there are not so many residents in
the City now as in 1851, although Dr. Letheby calculates their number to
have increased.
The following are the numbers of deaths registered in the sub-districts,
14 in Stoke Newington; 21 in Stamford Hill; 105 in West Hackney;
142 in Hackney (including the 33 in the German Hospital and East
London Union); and 52 in South Hackney.
During this quarter, I have made sanitary inspections in the following
localities, and have obtained your orders for improvements to be made therein,
viz:— Wellington Street; Shacklewell Lane; Holly Street; Caroline
Cottages, Caroline Street; Richmond Road; Wood Street, Clapton; Conduit
Place; King'sRoad, Homerton; Water Lane; Chatham Place; several houses
in High Street, Stoke Newington; Union Street and John Street, West
Hackney; Enfield Road; Silk Mill Road; Coronation Place; Prospect
Place; Caledonian Cottage, Brunswick Cottage, and other houses in
Stoke Newington Road; Albert Grove; Twemlow Terrace; White Post
Lane, Hackney Wick; Hertford Road; Bentley Crescent; Larter's Yard;
Elizabeth Cottage, Ridley Road; Mare Street and St. Thomas's Square;
also the Birkbeck Schools; the South Hackney National Schools; the
Lancasterian Schools, West Hackney, and the Schools in Brook Street,
Upper Clapton. The particulars of these inspections have been laid before
you in my Weekly Reports; I have also made special Reports on the