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and 25, 202 or 8.1 per cent. between 25 and 35, 191 or 7.7 per
cent. between 35 and 45, 187 or 7.5 per cent. between 45 and
55, 177 or 7.l per cent. between 55 and 65, 240 or 9.6 per
cent. between 65 and 75, 189 or no less than 7.6 per cent.
between 75 and 85, and 46 or 1.8 per cent. of persons who died
above 85 years, 3 of whom reached the patriarchal age of 95
and upwards.
The proportion of deaths under 1 year in all London was
263 in each 1000, at all ages, so that the rate in Hackney, 256,
although excessively high, was not so great as in London
generally. A better test of the salubrity of the district is
afforded by the rate of death, under 1 year, to all births, and
this we find to be much more satisfactory as regards this
district, for 147 deaths under 1 year were registered here out of
each 1000 births, whilst in all London there were 159 of each
1000 births The death rate under 1 year to births was greater
this year than in 1871 for all London as well as for Hackney—
viz., 247 and 226 respectively, so that we have only suffered
this year from causes which affected the whole metropolis.
I now propose laying before you tables of the deaths of
males and females at different ages for the 21 years, 1850-70.
A comparison of the two shows that although the total number
of deaths of females was iu excess of that of males, yet the
difference was not sufficient to extend to every year of the
period, although it happened in 15 out of the 21 years. It
might have been expected that as there are on an average
about 1000 male infants born to 961 females, that there would
have been a larger number of male deaths than of females; and
so there were during the first five years of life, as no less than
7417 deaths of males were registered against 6468 deaths of
females under 5 years old. The greater number of deaths of