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Hackney 1911
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1911
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metropolitan Borough of hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 19 11
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 my Twentieth Annual Report on the
Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The year 1911 was
noted for a rise in the general death-rate from 12.3 per 1,000 living
in the year 1910 to 15.0 per 1,000 living. This rise in the deathrate
was chiefly due to an outbreak of measles early in the year,
and an excessive number of deaths from summer diarrhoea during
the third quarter of the year. The infant mortality which was
119 per 1,000 births, also showed an increase upon the rate for
1910, the infant mortality for the latter year being 99 per 1,000
births. Infectious disease also showed an increase in the Borough
compared with the previous year, and the death-rate from the
chief zymotic diseases was 1.9 per 1,000 living as against .8 per
1,000 living during 1910.
The following table shows the Density of Population, Annual Mortality from all causes and Infant Mortality in the Borough of Hackney, during the
| Year. | Density. | General Death Rate (per 1,000 living). | Infantile Mortality Rate (per 1,000 births). |
|---|---|---|---|