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I am able this year to calculate with something like
precision the number of deaths belonging to each SubDistrict,
and to compare the percentages of deaths with the
percentages of population. It is quite evident that to place
merely crude numbers in the table and treat them as being
available for purposes of comparison with one another would
be utterly misleading, as the German, Fever, and Small-pox
Hospitals, as well as the Union Workhouse and City of
London Union are situated in Hackney Sub-District. I
have, therefore, assigned the deaths in the Fever, Smallpox
and German Hospitals, of inhabitants to the SubDistricts
from which the persons were brought, and divided
the other deaths pro rata to population, amongst the SubDistricts,
deducting of course those so assigned from the
other deaths registered in the Hackney Sub-District. I have
included all the deaths of non-parishioners in the German
Hospital, in the Lunatic Asylums, and in the River Lea
amongst the deaths for the whole District, as these, with
the deaths of parishioners in the Fever, Small-pox and
German Hospitals make up about our proportionate mortality
in the other London Hospitals. Indeed, from the returns
I have obtained, I think I have added on too many. The
corrected deaths for each Sub-District corresponds pretty
closely with the population, in Stamford Hill, West Hackney
and South Hackney Sub-Districts, being somewhat larger in
each, but the percentage of deaths was below the percentage
of population to a rather large extent in Stoke Newington.
This arises to a great extent from the comparative absence
of poor in Stoke Newington Parish,