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Hackney, corresponding pretty closely to the percentages of
population at the time of the last census.

I have not attempted to calculate the death rates for the
sub-districts, as the results cannot be satisfactory, because I
have no means of checking the population, which varies very
largely owing to the much greater number of houses built in
one sub-district than another, and because the collectors'
divisions do not correspond with the districts, and there is,
consequently, no check on any calculations I might make.
There are also other reasons, notably that the Hackney subdistrict
includes the German Hospital, the Hackney Union
Workhouse, the East London Union, the Fever and Small Pox
Hospitals and the Asylum Board, and some Lunatic Asylums.
It would, therefore, be of little use to distribute the deaths to
the sub-districts to which they belong without being fairly
certain as to the number of the population on which the deaths
should be calculated. The table, however, is useful in shewing
the probability of variations in the number of residents in these
localities. The number of deaths in Stoke Newington was 379
against 300 in 1881, indicating, together with the births, that
the population has not greatly increased there during the year ;
whilst the large increase which has taken place in the deaths
of Stamford Hill sub-district, viz., 175 against 148 in 1881,
would, without the knowledge I have of a large addition to the