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As before stated, the mortality for the whole of
London was unusually high for the year 1863, having
been 24½ per 1000 of the whole population. The
northern, which include Marylebone, Hampstead, Paneras,
Islington, and Hackney, have suffered far more
from disease and death than most of the other metropolitan
districts; for instead of having the smallest
mortality, they have had a larger death-rate than the
west and south districts. Hackney, however, has not
had so large a mortality as the other northern districts,
or so large as for the whole of London; for if we allow
the population on the 1st of July to have been 90,740,
and the corrected number of deaths 1783, we shall have
a death-rate of 10 in each 509 inhabitants, or 19½ in
each 1000 living. As I have excluded the deaths in
the German Hospital, I must add the proportion of
death to the population for London generally, which
was about 16 per 10,000, making the total only 212 in
each 10,000 living, or 26 in 10,000 below the average
for the whole of the northern districts.
The last table shows the ages at death and the causes
of death in fuller detail than table 5. The large proportion
of deaths from small-pox amongst young
persons, and the very large proportion of deaths from
fever, of persons under 20 years of age, are very
remarkable. Also the great number of deaths from
cancer is worthy of notice, as this disease appears to be
considerably on the increase in Hackney: