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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1913.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
June, 1914.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Twenty-second Annual Report
on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The Borough
continues to maintain its position as one of the healthiest in London.
The general death rate for the year was 13'6 per 1,000 of the
population and the infant mortality 99 per 1,000 births. These
figures show a small increase in the mortality compared with
1912. This increase is shared with the other Boroughs of the
Metropolis, and is due to an increase in the deaths from
summer diarrhoea, measles and respiratory diseases, these last
being largely due to a prevalence of influenza. An increase
in the prevalence of the notifiable infectious diseases also
occurred, the total number of cases from all these diseases
being 1,126, compared with 1,071 during the year 1912. The
number of deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 255,
which is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of 1.1 per 1,000
living.