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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1914.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
June, 1915.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Twenty-third Annual Report
on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The Borough
still maintains its position as one of the healthiest in London.
The general death rate for the year was 13.9 per 1,000 of the
population and the infant mortality 90 per 1,000 births. These
figures show a small increase in the general death rate and a decline
in the infant death rate. This increase in the general death rate
is shared with the other Boroughs of the Metropolis, and is due
chiefly to an increase in the deaths from measles and whooping
cough. An increase in the prevalence of the notifiable infectious
diseases also occurred, the total number of cases from all these
diseases being 1,711, compared with 1,126 during the year 1913. The
number of deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 341,
which is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of 1.5 per 1,000 living.
A slight increase in the mortality from tuberculosis took place
during the year. This subject is particularly dealt with on page