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Loudon Union, to admit of ready and trustworthy comparison
with past years.
The total number of deaths registered within the district was
1749, of which 114 were registered in Stoke Newington, 85 in
Stamford Hill, 44 in West Hackney, 814 in Hackney, and 325
in South Hackney sub-districts. But as 204 deaths happened
in the German Hospital and East London Union, which have
to be eliminated as usual; and as 84 deaths took place in the
Hackney Workhouse, which have to be apportioned to the
various sub-districts in proportion to the population, it is almost
useless to consider the mortality as registered. In the above
table I have given the original and the corrected numbers for
each sub-district in comparison with population, which shews
that precisely the corrected rate of deaths occurred in Stoke
Newington sub-district, viz. 79 out of each 1000 deaths in the
whole district; that in Stamford Hill it was only 60 instead of
69 per 1000; in West Hackney it was 287 instead of 292 per
1000; in Hackney only 351 instead of 378 per 1000; and in
South Hackney 223 against 185 per 1000. The birth-rate in
South Hackney having been larger than the calculated rate, it
is almost certain that the population is larger than the calculated
number, and that therefore the death-rate was smaller in
proportion to the residents than that just mentioned, but a
glance at Table 4, shews that this cannot account for the whole
of the increased mortality.