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Hackney, 1646 in Hackney, and 1050 in South Hackney.
These numbers are in excess for the whole district, as compared
with 1871, for in the latter year 316 were registered in Stoke
Newington, 204 in Stamford Hill, 971 in West Hackney, 1583
in Hackney, and 1074 in South Hackney, The increase of
births was only at the rate of 23 per 1,000 above those of 1871,
so that I may, perhaps, have calculated the increase of
population at too great an amount.

The largest number of deaths was registered in the first
quarter, viz., 706, which arose in part from the large number of
deaths from small-pox in the first quarter as compared with the
others, and from the unusually high mean temperature of
November and December, when the mortality and sickness of
the district were unusually small. The mean temperature of
November was 3 degrees, and of December 3'8 degrees in excess
of the mean of 101 years; and of November 1.7 degrees, and of
December 2.7 degrees in excess of the average of the last 31
years as observed at Greenwich, I pointed out in previous
reports that the observations taken at Greenwich exhibit a
greater range of temperature than in Hackney, but that the
mean temperature is about 0.3 of a degree below that for
Hackney, so that the Greenwich records may be considered
as fairly representing those for Hackney.