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The next table for consideration is that of the deaths.

We see that there were 224 deaths registered in Stoke
Newington against the 417 births; 126 deaths in Stamford Hill
against 197 births; 546 deaths in West Hackney against 1090
births; 1140 deaths in Hackney sub-district against 1660
births; and 558 deaths in South Hackney to 1067 births; or a
total of 2594 deaths to 4431 births. The proportion of births to
deaths was as large as 171 of the former to each 100 of the
latter. This is a little smaller than last year, but, with that
exception, is in excess of any year since 1861.
The deaths registered in the Hackney sub-district include
those in the Union Workhouse, the City of London Union, and
the German Hospital; also, all the deaths which occur amongst
the residents of the district in the Small-Pox and Fever
Hospitals. It is obvious from this, that it is useless to compare
the number of deaths in the various sub-districts unless corrections
are made for these deaths, and even then, as the proportionate
number of residents in the sub-districts has altered
since the census, the comparison would not afford reliable date.
The largest number of deaths occurred in the first and last
quarters of the year, when the mean temperature for each was