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Table V.—Showing number of Deaths in Hackney distributed in the
various Registration Sub-Districts, with rates per 1,000 living persons for
the year 1896.
Hackney.
South
Hackney.
West
Hackney.
Stamford
Hill.
All
Hackney.
Total Deaths
registered in the
four sub-districts
2,141
656
659
193
3,649
Deaths occurring
in the sub-districts
amongst
persons not belonging
thereto
326
15
82
423
Deaths occurring
outside the subdistricts
amongst
persons belonging
thereto
144
64
48
15
271
Corrected No. of
Deaths
1,959
705
625
208
3497
Kates per 1,000
living
18.6
15.8
14.3
10.1
16.4
A further correction for age and sex distribution is still
necessary to be made to the above general rate, if it is to be
compared with the rates of other districts in London. Making this
correction by means of the factor 1.04645, the corrected rate for the
whole of Hackney for the year 1896 becomes 17.1 per 1,000. This
rate is less than that for the previous year by 1.5 per 1,000.
The difference is explained by the mildness of the early months of
1896, compared with the intense cold of the early months of the
year 1895. Had there not been another water failure of the East
London Water Company during last summer, I have no doubt the
mortality rate for the year would have been much lower.
The annual death-rate for London for the year 1896 was 19.8
per 1,000 living persons.
Infant Mortality.—The deaths of infants under one year
during 1896 numbered 1,010, being an increase of 34 over those for
the previous year. The death-rate is therefore equivalent to 157 per