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unless the Board will order water to be laid on to the
closets, this cannot be entirely altered, as the magistrates
have objected to order additional water butts in
several cases latelv.
The number of Births in the District was larger in
1866 than in any other year, having been 3,508 against
3,356 in 1865. The number of deaths was 2,394 against
2,187 in 1865. This was, as I shall presently show, a
much smaller rate than that for all London. In comparing
it with the death-rate of 1865, we shall find it to
indicate a very much smaller increase than for all
London. These arc extremely satisfactory results,
especially when we consider our close proximity to the
chief seat of the cholera outbreak. There were 211
deaths in the East London Union and German Hospital,
which do not belong to this district, so that deducting
these, there were 2,183 deaths of inhabitants. In calculating
the proportion of deaths to population, I
have allowed the rate of increase of population in the
district to be a trifle more than 4 per cent, per annum,
and have added the proportion of deaths in the London
hospitals to the number of deaths in the district, so as
to compare with the mortality for all London. The
number of births to each 100 deaths has been calculated
on the totals without deductions of any kind, so
that they are fairly comparable, although not strictly
accurate. The death-rate in London is that for the
whole population, and for Hackney after corrections in
the manner above stated.