View report page

13
persons above 75 years of age, or at the rate of 108 in each
1000 deaths.
The average rate of death for the whole of London was 243
in each 10,000; in 1864 it was 246 in each 10,000. The rate
of death for the whole of the Northern Metropolitan Districts
was as nearly as possible the same in 1865, viz: 245 per 10,000
residents. These numbers of course are calculated on a
population corrected at the same rate of increase as occurred
during the years 1851-61. I think this is too high for the
Northern Districts generally as it was 2.34 per cent. per annum.
The population of Hackney increased during the same time at
the rate of 4 per cent, but I believe has increased more rapidly
since 1861. The deaths in the Hackney District in 1865 were
2187, of which however 227 occurred in the East London
Union and German Hospital. Deducting the 227 there remains
1960 deaths belonging to Hackney. Assuming the population
in the middle of 1865 to have been 94,369 and the number of
deaths 1960, the rate of death would be 10 in each 482 living
or 207 in each 10,000 residents. If to this we add the proportion
of deaths in the Metropolitan Hospital we obtain the
corrected number of 218 deaths in each 10,000 living, against
245 for all the Northern Districts. This shows that Hackney
has, as usual, been much more healthy than London at
large or than the adjoining Districts.
The temperature for the year was unusually high having been
50°3 or nearly 1° above the average of 24 years. The
temperature of January, February, March, and August was
below the mean, and of all the other months above it. The
highest temperature recorded at the Town Hall was 83½ degrees
and the lowest 16½ degrees, showing a range of 67 degrees.
The extreme cold of the early part of the year, and the