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Hackney 1902
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1902
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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1902.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Hackney
Gentlemen,
In presenting my Eleventh Annual Report on the Health of the
Borough of Hackney, I have great pleasure in stating that the year
1902 has been a most satisfactory one, in many ways, in regard to the
public health. In spite of an epidemic of small-pox, which threatened
to involve the greater part of Hackney, the death-rate for the year
was one of the lowest on record, viz., 16.0 per 1,000 persons living
that of all London being 17.7 per 1,000. The death-rate was par'
ticularly low, 11-5, in the North sub-district (Upper Clapton and
Stamford Hill), and only 18.2 per 1,000 living in the South-East sub-