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only amount to this, we shall have good reason to be satisfied, as a
large number of the newly built houses are occupied by members of
the labouring classes, who have come from the more densely
populated parts of London, amongst whom the mortality is much
greater, and especially amongst young children, than those who
formerly constituted the great bulk of the Hackney population.
Table X.
Showing the decennial mean numbers in the years 1841.71
of the births and deaths, of the ratios of births to
deaths, of births to population, of deaths under 1 year
to total births, of deaths from all causes and from the
seven most fatal zymotic diseases to 1,000 population.