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of London where we find the rate of births to have been only 150 to
each 100 deaths during the year 1859. The birth.rate is really higher
than 164 to each 100 deaths, because the whole of the mortality in the
German Hospital is included in the number of deaths, while not one birth
occurs there in the course of a year, the corrected numbers would be 167
births to 100 deaths. The proportion of births in eaeh 1000 for the whole.
District was 67 in Stoke Newington, 61 in Stamford Hill, 318 in West.
Hackney, 367 in Hackney, and 187 in South Hackney sub.districts.

As before stated, the total number of deaths in the District during
the year was 1563, of which 108 happened in Stoke Newington, 88 in
Stamford Hill sub.district, 420 in West Hackney, 692 in Hackney, and
255 in South Hackney sub.districts. These numbers include the deaths
in the East London Union, the German Hospital, and the Hackney
Workhouse. Now it is evident that these cannot give a correct impression
of the health of the sub.districts as the deaths in the whole of these
institutions are included in those registered for the Hackney sub.district
If we therefore eliminate the mortality in the East London Union, and
spread that in the Hackney Workhouse over the whole District in proportion
to the calculated population of each sub.district, the numbers will
be as follows,—in Stoke Newington sub.district 114 or 8.0 per cent, of
the whole number, in Stamford Hill 96 or 6'7 per cent., in West Hackney
444 or 31'3 per cent., in Hackney 496 or 35'0 per cent., and in
South Hackney 269 or 19 "0,
These figures will be better understood if they be placed in a tabular
form. The table also shows that the rate of death in each quarter of
the year varied from that hitherto noted, inasmuch as the third quarter
which has heretofore been, except in 1858, the most healthy, was, a»
wo observe in most large cities, one of the mcst unhealthy.