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Hackney 1913

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1913

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Table: The relative position from the health point of view occupied by Hackney may be seen from the subjoined table, compiled from figures supplied by the Register-General showing the deaths rates all causes and the death rates of infants under one year of age in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the City of London for the year 1913:—

The relative position from the health point of view occupied by Hackney may be seen from the subjoined table, compiled from figures supplied by the Register-General showing the deaths rates all causes and the death rates of infants under one year of age in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the City of London for the year 1913:—

BoroughsDeath-rate from all causes per 1,000 living corrected).Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 births.
County of London14.2105
Lewisham10.478
Wandsworth10.688
Hampstead11.373
Stoke Newington12.982
Fulham12.996
Woolwich13.079
Chelsea13.290
City of Westminster13.396
Paddington13.4100
Hackney13.699
Camberwell13.6106
Kensington13.6112
Hammersmith13.8103
Greenwich14.0103
Battersea14.0111
Lambeth14.0102
St. Marylebone14.391
Holborn14.7104
Islington14.8107
Deptford15.2112
St. Pancras15.292
Stepney ,,15.6112
City of London15.896
Bethnal Green16.1118
Poplar16.1112
Southwark17.6115
Bermondsey17.8132
Finsbury18.1138
Shoreditch19.2155

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The measures taken during the year for dealing with the
problem of infant mortality are dealt with in another part of this
report (see page 15), but, as may be seen from the rate of infant
mortality for the period in question, Hackney compares very
favourably with that of other large Metropolitan Boroughs.
The following table shows the kind of change which is gradually
taking place in the Borough, viz., a change from a residential
locality to that of an industrial centre:—