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were registered in the Hackney District, viz., only 148. It
is true that there were a few other deaths in the Highgate
Small Pox Hospital, of inhabitants of this District, but I
have not been able to ascertain the localities from which
these patients were removed, or their number, although I
applied to the hospital authorities for permission to inspect
the books. As 1505 deaths were registered as having
occurred in the Highgate Small Pox Hospital in these 10
years, or just above 18 per cent. of the total number of
deaths in the Metropolis from this disease, and as doubtless
other than Metropolitan cases are received into that Hospital,
I have added for purposes of comparison, one-sixth, or
25 deaths to our total, making 173 in the ten years, or 2.1
per cent. of the total Metropolitan deaths, which were 8,312
in number. During the 10 years 1871-80, there were 15,528
deaths from small pox in London, and as far as I could
ascertain from the addresses given in the District Registrar's
returns, there were 965 deaths in Hackney, and of these,
912 are tabulated in the Appendix No. 1 to this Report. I
could not assign the death to a particular street in all cases,
as the District Registrar had omitted the address in many
instances where the death had occurred in hospitals. The
mortality in 1871 was enormous in this District, having
been as high as 3.2 per 1,000 population; the average
annual death rate from small pox in 1861-70 having been
(after the 25 deaths were added for correction,) only .167 per
1,000; and in the ten years 1871-80, '64 per 1,000, that
is to say, about 1 death in each 1,600 inhabitants. In the
whole of London, the average annual mortality from this
disease in 1861-70, was .276 per 1,000, or more than half as
high again as that in Hackney; whilst in 1871-80, it was
only .460 per 1,000 population, against .640 in Hackney,
showing that this District had suffered nearly half as much
again as all London during these 10 years. It is also
evident, according to the calculations for 1861-70 and for
1871-80, that small pox was nearly 4 times, or to speak