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metropolitan Borough or hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1916.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, E. 8.
July, 1917.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Twenty-fifth Annual Report
on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The general
death-rate for the year 1916 was 13.8 per 1,000 of the population,
and the infant mortality rate 84 per 1,000 births. These figures
show a slight decrease in the general death-rate and a considerable
decline in the infant death-rate, compared with the year 1915.
During the year measles and German measles were added to the
list of compulsorily notifiable diseases. Including cases of these
diseases there were 2,631 cases of acute infectious disease notified
during the year, giving an attack rate of 12.5 per 1,000 for the
year. The number of deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases
numbered 176, which is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of
.8 per 1,000 living. A slight decline in the mortality from
tuberculosis took place during the year, the mortality rate for
the year being 17 per 1,000 living. This subject is dealt with in
detail on page 19, and that of infant mortality on page 8 of this
Report.