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from these diseases, which would probably have occurred if the
population had been as great then as it now is. The summer of
1860 was remarkably cool and wet, so that the mortality from
fever and diarrhoea was much less than usual, 19 deaths only having
been registered from diarrhoea, being 100 less than in 1868,
and only 38 from fever against 54 in 1868. The proportion of
deaths from diarrhoea in 1868 was excessively large, being more
than one third of the total from all these diseases, whereas the
average is about one-fifth. Against this excess of deaths is to
be placed the reduction in the mortality from whooping cough,
scarlet fever and fever. As regards scarlet fever it is remarkable
that Hackney should have escaped the epidemic which has
raged in most of the metropolitan districts. I attribute this
chiefly to the prompt disinfection of the rooms, clothes, and
the excrements of persons suffering from this disease.

This important Table shows that 254 deaths of children
under one year old were registered in each 1000 deaths. That
out of each 1000 deaths, 139 were registered between 1 and 5
years of age; 44 between 5 and 15; 51 between 15 and 25;
78 between 25 and 35; 69 between 35 and 45 ; 71 between 45
and 55; 78 between 55 and 65; 107 between 65 and 75; 86
between 75 and 85; 22 between 85 and 95, and 1 above 95