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annual summary of the Registrar-General, as the deaths in fiftythree
weeks have to be included this year in his figures, because
they are compiled from the weekly returns, whilst mine include
only those which occurred during the year, the date of death and
not of registration being taken. The deaths also of small-pox
and fever cases coming from other parishes are included in the
Registrar-General's return, but are excluded from my tables.
Corrections will be doubtless made hereafter in an annual report
for these and other deaths, but they are not made in earlier returns,
so that Hackney appears to have a larger death-rate than really
belongs to it. I have not calculated out the death-rate for the
different sub-districts of Hackney, as the German Hospital, the
City of London Union, the Hackney Union Workhouse, and the
Small-pox and Fever Hospitals, are all included in the Hackney
Sub-district, and the necessary corrections might therefore lead
to considerable error. This is especially likely to occur, as, with
the exception of Stoke Newington, there are no reliable data on
which to calculate the increase of population, the wards or collectors'
districts not corresponding with the registration subdistricts.
The table shows that there were 338 deaths registered in
Stoke Newington, against 165 in 1871 ; 142 in Stamford Hill,
against 100 in 1871; 645 in West Hackney, against 631 ;
1,453 in Hackney, against 1,313 in 1871; and 707 in South
Hackney, against 605 in 1871. There were 970 deaths registered
during the first quarter; 825 in the second; only 60S in
the third; and 882 in the fourth. The small proportion in the
third quarter arose chiefly from the diminished number of deaths
from diarrhoea, whilst the large number in the first quarter was
caused by the unusual severity of the winter and consequent
mortality from bronchitis. It is probable that several years will
elapse before so small a comparative mortality will be registered
in the summer quarter.