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142,000 persons resident in the District under your sanitary
control,—as there were 4.970 births in 1875 against 3508 in
1860. The deaths are also more numerous, as in 1866 they
were, when corrected for deaths in the City of London Workhouse
and in the German Hospital, 2282, and in 1875, after
deducting deaths in the City of London Workhouse and in
the Small Pox and Fever Hospitals, as many as 2948. In
making corrections for deaths of non-residents and of inmates
of hospitals, I have, since the establishment of the Small Pox
and Fever Hospitals, preferred placing the whole of the deaths in
the German Hospital to the District, against the deaths in
hospitals in the rest of London, as there is much difficulty in
allowing for the population as well as the deaths in the various
Metropolitan medical institutions. The number of births to
1000 population has remained pretty constant during the ten
years, as the lowest was 32.3 and the highest 35.9; that for last
year having been 35.1 per 1000.

The total number of births registered in the District was
4970; of which 519 took place in Stoke Newington, 231 in
Stamford Hill, 1148 in West Hackney, 1825 in Hackney, and
1244 in South Hackney. In 1874 there were 449 births in Stoke
Newington sub-district, 218 in Stamford Hill, 1118 in West
Hackney, 1804 in Hackney, and 1166 in South Hackney; so that
there was a decided increase in Stoke Newington and South
Hackney, and a slight increase only in the other sub-districts.
The per centage of births to the total number in 1874 and 1875