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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1908.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Seventeenth Annual Report on
the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. From a public
health point of view the year 1908 must be regarded as specially
satisfactory, even more so than the year 1907, which was a year
favourable to low mortality statistics. The former year, now under
review, was characterised by a low general death rate, 13.9 per
1,000 of the population. This is the lowest corrected annual death
rate for Hackney experienced for many years. The infant mortality
was 116 per 1,000 births, exactly the same as last year, which was a
record year in respect of low infant mortality. Infectious disease
was also much less prevalent, and the zymotic death rate
considerably lower than during 1907. These figures must be
considered together with the facts that the population of the
Borough of Hackney has a density of 71.0 persons per acre, which