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This Table (No. 4,) shows that the higher districts have been
unusually healthy this year, while the lower have suffered from
disease rather more than usual. Thus the death-rate was below
the average in the Stamford Hill sub-district—having been less
than at any period since 1856—and, with one exception, the same
applies to Stoke Newington; in West Hackney the rate varied but
little from the average; whilst in Hackney it was somewhat above,
and in South Hackney decidedly more than the mean.
The whole of the deaths in the district have been grouped
together in Table 5, so as to shew the causes of death, and the per
centages for the four years, 1858—61. We perceive that in the first
Quarter inflammatory diseases of the lungs caused the greatest number
of deaths—more than 25 per cent.—whilst in the second Quarter
the greatest mortality resulted from tubercular affections; and in the
two last Quarters, zymotic diseases were most fatal, having been
above 25 ner cent.