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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1910.
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 Nineteenth Annual Report on the
Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The favourable condition
of Hackney during the last few years from a health point of
view has not only been maintained but further improved during
1910. This year was noted for the extremely low general death
rate 12.3 per 1,000 living, that of 1909 being 13.7 per 1,000 living.
The infant mortality for the year, which was 99 per 1,000 births, also
shows an improvement upon the rate for 1909, the infant mortality
rate for this latter year being 108 per 1,000 births. Infectious
disease in the Borough also showed a marked decline upon the
number notified during the previous year, and the death rate from
the seven chief zymotic diseases shows the same improvement,
being .8 per 1,000 living as against .9 per 1,000 living during 1909.