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12
births in 1871, against 243 this year. The number of births is
greater in each of the other districts, as in 1871 there were 971
registered in West Hackney, against 1267 in 1877 ; 1583 in
Hackney, against 2047, and 1074 in South Hackney against
1375 ; but in spite of this excess the percentages have
diminished in all except Stoke Newington. There were 3092
deaths of inhabitants registered during the year, against the
5555 births, giving an increase of population from the exccss of
births amounting to 2463 persons, or about one-and-a-half per
cent, on the total population.

The table of deaths shows a much larger mortality in
Stoke Newington as might have been expected this year than
in 1871; but the proportion of births to deaths remains almost
unchanged, there having been 191 births in 1871, and 189 in
1877, against each 100 deaths. The difficulty in calculating the
death rates for the sub-districts is so great, not only because the
Workhouse, the German Hospital, the City of London Unions,
and the Fever and Small Pox Hospitals are in Hackney subdistrict,
that I have not attempted to carry it out, but also
because the rate of increase in the population of the sub-districts
is not at all uniform, and I have no means of ascertaining what
the additional numbers in each district are, as the registration
districts do not correspond with the wards or the collectors'
districts. There were 295 deaths registered in Stoke Newington,