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Hackney 1903
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1903
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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1903.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg herewith to present my Twelfth Annual Report on the Public
Health of the Borough of Hackney. The year 1903 has been
exceptional in several ways. The general dea,th-rate of the Borough
for the year was 14.1 per 1000 living. This is the lowest mortality
rate on record since the year 1889, when it was 13.6. The infant
mortality was also low, being only 127 per 1000 births. The deaths
from infectious disease contrasted favourably with past years, the
zymotic death-rate for the Borough during 1903 being 19 per 1000
living, the average for the year 1892 to 1903 being 31 per 1000
living. The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease was