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Metropolitan Borough of backney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1904.
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 Thirteenth Annual Report on the
Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The past year cannot,
from a public health point of view, be regarded as being quite so
satisfactory as the year 1903. While no very wide-spread or serious
incidence of infectious disease occurred in the borough during that
year, the number of such cases exceeded largely that of the previous
year. "While only 1,850 cases were notified in 1903, the number
reached 2,426 during 1904. The general mortality also reached a
higher figure last year than in 1903, the mortality rates being 16.05
per 1,000 in 1904 against 14.1 per 1,000 in 1903. The death-rate
from infectious disease was also higher, viz. 2.3 per 1,000 against 1.9
per 1,000 in 1903. The cause of the increased general mortality during
1904 is to be found, no doubt, in the increased heat and dryness of the
summer months of last year, the mean temperature being 63.1, and the