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more satisfactory as they happened in the year before and the
year after the census of 1881, so that the calculated population
could not be far wrong in either year. Indeed, if the census
had been taken some years since I should have thought that
my calculated population was much too high, and the assumed
death rate consequently too low; but under the circumstance s
the error, if any, from this cause cannot be large. The
proportion of deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases
in Hackney was small, viz., 3.10 per 1000 inhabitants against
38.3 for all London, and 2.39 for all England; the mean in
Hackney for the 10 years, 1871-80, having been 3.40 per 1000.
I may mention here that I have made what I consider to be a
full allowance for deaths in hospitals by retaining all the deaths
in the German Hospital, the Lunatic Asylums, in the River Lea,
and of inhabitants of this district in the Asylum's Boards
Hospitals, especially as from the social position of our
population we cannot have so large a proportion of deaths
in hospitals as occurs for all London.
The number of small pox cases reported to me this year
was very small as compared with 1881, there having been only
79 against 1146 in the last-named year; and of these 50
occurred in small houses, and 29 in better class houses—to a
great extent amongst servants and other employes. There
were several cases in the vicinity of the hospital, and especially
in Clifden road, where 3 cases occurred, as well as 2 in
Brooksby's Walk, 1 in College street, and 1 in Nesbitt street.
The small pox cases were treated in wards situated at the back
of the hospital, nearer to Clifden road than to any of the other
streets and places where the disease has hitherto been so
prevalent. The source of infection could not be ascertained
in any case, although particular enquiries were made. One of
the persons attacked had, however, come to reside in Clifden
road rather less than three weeks before the disease manifested
itself. There were not any other cases of zymotic disease in
Clifden road, although the Fever Hospital is within a very
short distance from the houses on one side of the road, and the