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no cases were observed which could be attributed to the eating
of diseased meat. The use of diseased milk could not under
any circumstances be great as the secretion of milk was immediately
diminished and often ceased on the development of
the disease. There can however be but little doubt that milk
from affected animals was sold, and has caused diarrhoea. The
continuous high price of meat is however a far more serious
matter, as English people, and especially children, require a
fair amount of meat, otherwise they become ancemic and inclined
to consumption or other diseases of debility.
The mortality in the Hackney District was rather in excess
during last year, but not to so great an extent as in the whole
of London. The number of deaths was smaller in 1865, after
allowing for increased population than in 1864, 2187 deaths
having been registered in 1865, against the corrected number
of 2228 for 1864. By the "corrected number" I mean the
number which would have died in 1864 if the population had
been as numerous as in 1865. The rate of births was also
more favorable, being 155 to each 100 deaths in 1865, against
148 to each 100 deaths in 1864.