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REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The Registrar General of Births and Deaths observes, in his Report for
this Quarter, "That in the whole of the Metropolis the number of deaths
registered in the three months was 100,986, considerably more than in the
same Quarter of 1860, which was 86,423, but less than in that of 1859.
And over England the fluctuation in the deaths was generally similar to
that which is shown in the aggregate number. The annual rate of
mortality did not rise quite to the average, for the former was 199 in
10,000 of the population, the latter is 202. In the cold September
Quarter of 1860 the rate was 171." The Registrar General also points
out the great increase in the deaths from diarrhoea during this Quarter,
above the number registered in the corresponding Quarter of 1860.
A comparison of the deaths in Hackney District during the Summer
Quarters of 1859, 1860, and 1861, shews identical results with those
obtained for the whole of London. Thus the deaths from all causes in
the Quarter ending September 30th, 1859, were 426 in number, which,
when corrected for increase of population to the present time, would be
460; in the corresponding Quarter of 1860, being only 308, is corrected
320; whilst in 1861 they were 430. The deaths from diarrhoea, when
corrected, were as follows: for the summer of 1859, 81; of 1860, only 11;
in 1861, 43. The deaths, corrected, from epidemic diseases, daring these
periods were no less than 137 in 1859; only 58 in 1860; and 106 in
1861.
The remarks which I made on the temperature of 1859 and of 1860, I
will now quote. In 1859 I observed that "the meteorology of the
quarter has been most unusual; the mean temperature having been