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This table shows the death-rate from all causes in the Borough
of Hackney to be the fourth lowest in all London, and the infant
mortality the eleventh lowest.
I have pleasure in stating that the officers of the Department
have, on the whole, carried out the duties entrusted to them to
my entire satisfaction.
Population and Density.—Owing to the fact that during the
present war "men of military age have been largely drafted to
military centres or sent abroad with the army, and the remainder
of the male adult population, as well as, to a lesser extent, the
female population has migrated on an unprecedented scale into
areas other than those in which it was enumerated at the last
census," estimates of population based upon the methods hitherto
in use would be entirely unreliable. The Registrar.General has
therefore suggested a method more applicable to the present circumstance
which "will furnish death.rates calculated to indicate
as near as may be the health conditions of the civil population."