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Although the mortality for the whole of London exceeded
that of 1874 by 1.1 per 1000 population, yet in Hackney this
increase was only about one half of that number, viz., 0.6 per
1000. This is decidedly satisfactory, as the density of population
in this District is rapidly increasing. Thus, Table 1 shows that
in 1866 there were only 25 persons to an acre, but that last year
there were as many as 36, and, as I shall point out, when considering
the causes affecting the death rate of a district, that this
increase in the number of the population must exert, certainly,
in many parts of the Parish, a prejudicial effect on the public
health.

Population at Census 1871 124,951
No. of Inhabited Houses at Census 1871 19,347
No. of Families or separate Occupiers at Census 1871 26,045
No. of Persons on an average in each inhabited house
at Census 1871 6.46
*Note.—The Deaths are corrected so as to allow for the Deaths in the Small Pox and Fever
Hospitals, in the German Hospital and City of London Workhouse, which are
situate in the Hackney District, also for the proportion of Deaths in other
Metropolitan Hospitals, and by deducting the population in these Institutions.
This Table shows that the population of the District has
probably increased during the ten years by 40,000 persons, and
I am informed by Mr. Pursey that the number of assessments
have kept pace with this estimated population. The increase of
inhabitants of Stoke Newington is probably larger in proportion
than that of Hackney, so that I am persuaded that my calculation
is not too great,—indeed, it is probably too small. The
increase in the number of births also supports the probability
that at the middle of the year there were nearly, if not quite,