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*Above average. + Below average.
This table shews that 192 deaths were registered during the first 4 weeks,
and consequently correspond with the extremely severe weather, whilst
132 only were registered during the next 4 weeks, when the temperature,
with but few exceptions, was much above the average. An examination of
the Table of Deaths, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1859
(which was very mild), also shews that whilst the deaths from almost all
the great groups of disease, with the exceptions of the zymotic, had
increased, the great excess was caused by inflammatory diseases of
the lungs. Thus, in 1859 there were when corrected for increase of
population, 84 deaths from epidemic diseases against 81 in 1861, there
were only 83 deaths from inflammatory diseases of the lungs against 118
in 1861; and, whilst in 1859 there were only 31 deaths from consumption,
against 50 in 1861. These facts point out very strongly the
necessity of those inhabitants of Hackney district, who are in a weak
state of health, or liable to diseased lungs, taking the utmost care of
themselves during very cold weather.
The deaths from the remaining groups of diseases may be briefly stated
as follows:—19 from dropsy; 75 from tubercular diseases, including consumption;
67 from diseases of the brain and nervous system; 34 from
diseases of the heart and blood vessels; 23 from affection of the stomach
and digestive organs; 7 from diseases of the kidney; 13 from premature