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Annual JUport.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
THE past year has been one of the most remarkable on record
for excessive and sudden atmospheric vicissitudes, for the extreme
cold, and great rain-fall. This unusual weather has not
been productive of excessive mortality, but on the contrary has
been coincident with an unusually small death-rate.
As I have previously stated in the printed Quarterly Reports
the chief sanitary improvements which have been made during the
year; many of the localities and premises I have visited; also the
number and causes of-death, it will be unnecessary to do more
than lay before you a summary for the year. The points which
I propose considering are: Firstly—the total number of births
and deaths in the sub-district; Secondly—the causes of death
under the chief classes or groups of diseases, especially as regards
epidemics ; Thirdly—the age at death ; Fourthly—the deathrate
for the whole district; Fifthly—the average duration and
expectancy of life ; Sixthly—the nuisances abated; and Seventhly—
the meteorology for the year.