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Hackney 1913
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1913
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number of births which should be so transferred, viz., 302 births
to be transferred to other districts and 92 to Hackney. After
making these necessary corrections, the correct total of registered
births amongst Hackney residents is 5,523. From this figure I
calculate the corrected birth-rate for Hackney during 1913 to be
24 7 per 1,000 of the population. The birth-rate for all London for
the same period is 24 5 per 1,000 of the population.
The following table—Under the provisions of
this Act, I received 5,603 notifications of births occurring in the
Borough during 1913. This total includes notifications from
medical practitioners, midwives and other persons. It also includes
still births. This total is 80 more than the number registered by
the Registrars of Births.
Still Births.—Amongst the births notified were 152 still-born.
This is equal to 2.per cent, of those notified. I give here a table
showing the number of notifications received, with other details,
in connection with the same.
(6) NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907,
| 1913. | Medical Practitioners. | Midwives. | Parents and Others. | Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| , Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | Live. | Still. | |||||||||
| M. | M. | F. | M. | F | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Totals. | 963 | 902 | 41 | 30 | 1.2S6 | 1,290 | 42 | 26 | 504 | 496 | 5 | 8 | 2.763 | 2,688 | 88 | 64 |
The following table, abstracted from the Census Report of
1911, gives the foreign-born residents in Hackney at that date:—