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Division, the proportion of births to population would necessarily
bo below the mean for the whole District. The next largest
number of births, viz. 1,380, was registered in South Hackney,
and the next in West Hackney, viz. 1,291. Stoke Newington
again shows an increase in the number of births, as there were 776
registered in this year against 706 in 1880. There was also a
slight increase in Stamford Hill, viz. 330 against 312. The
percentages of births in the Sub-Districts to the total number in
the whole District were 12.2 in Stoke Newington, 5.2 in
Stamford Hill, 20.2 in West Hackney, 40'8 in Hackney, and
21.0 in South Hackney; so that, with the exception of Ilackney
Sub-District, which is somewhat larger, the percentages are
nearly the same as those for last year.

This table of deaths in the Sub-Districts might almost as well
be left out, except for comparison with those for other years,
as there are so many disturbing elements arising from the
Hackney Union and City of London Workhouses, and the
Hospitals being within the Hackney Sub-District. For instance,
the true number of deaths cannot be known even by distribution
of deaths and population in Hospitals and Workhouses, unless
the Sub-Districts from which persons dying in the Hackney
Workhouse, and in the Hospitals, not only in Hackney but in
all London were ascertained. As compared with last year there