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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1915.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
July, 1916.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Twenty-fourth Annual Report
on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The general
death-rate for the year 1915 was 14.9 per 1,000 of the population,
and the infant mortality 107 per 1,000 births. These figures show
an increase in the general death-rate and in the infant death-rate
compared with the year 1914. These increased mortality rates
are not confined to the Borough, but are more or less general
throughout London, and are due to a large increase in the deaths
from bronchitis and pneumonia. There was a decrease in the
prevalence of notifiable infectious diseases, the total number of
such notified being 1,559, compared with 1,656 during 1914. The
number of deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases numbered
263, which is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of 1.2 per 1,000
living. A slight increase in the mortality from tuberculosis took
place during the year. This subject is dealt with in detail on page 20
of this Report. On the whole, the general tendency of this disease
is to a gradual decline in prevalence.