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The percentages of births have varied considerably since 1871
in Stoke Newington, and but slightly in the other sub.districts,
owing to the far more rapid increase in the population of that
parish than in other divisions of the district. The population in
1871, as enumerated at the census, was 9.841, and of inhabited
houses 1,556, the number of births registered in 1S71 being 316,
against 819 in 1879. The population of Hackney Parish I
estimate to have been 152,920 on July 1, 1879, and of Stoke
Newington 22,830, which would give a birth rate of 35.9 per
1,000 population in each parish. The birth rate in 1871 was
nearly the same in both parishes, and assuming that the number
of persons to a house remains the same as at the time of the
census, this calculation cannot be far from correct. There were
300 births registered in Stamford Hill Sub.district, or 4.8 per cent,
of the whole ; 1,331 in West Hackney, or 21.1 per cent.; 2,359,
or 37.4 per cent., in Hackney; and 1,497 in South Hackney, or
23.7 per cent, of the total number of births in the whole
district. The largest number of births, as usual, were registered
during the first quarter, next in the last, and the smallest in the
third quarter.

The number of deaths of inhabitants, due allowance being
made for deaths in hospitals, was less in 1879 than in 1878,
having been 3,285, against 3,392 in the former year. The
number here given will not agree with those returned in the