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from epidemic diseases. The average of 10 years' returns for
Hackney, excluding the deaths from cholera, shows that rather
more than 20 per cent. of the deaths from all causes were
caused by epidemic diseases; whereas, only 16½ per cent. were
registered from these causes in 1867. This is usually the case
during the year after a cholera outbreak, but not to so great an
extent as in 1867. It is also somewhat remarkable that the
deaths from tubercular diseases, including consumption, water
on the brain, tubercular disease of the mesentery, and scrofula,
were 20 per cent. in 1867 against an average of 16½ per cent.
Diseases of the nervous system, of the heart, lungs, and stomach,
&c., were less fatal than usual; whilst deaths from premature
birth and debility, also from atrophy, were in excess. The
deaths from epidemic and tubercular diseases, affections of the
nervous system, and of the lungs, caused no less than 63½ per
cent. of the total mortality. It is also worthy of remark, that
the deaths from violence, including those from accidents,
negligence, suicide, and murder, continue as nearly as possible
at the same rate, for the average of 10 years was 34 in each 1000
deaths, and for 1867 it was 37 per 1000.