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Hackney 1920

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920

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Table: The relative position from a health point of view occupied byHackney as compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs maybeseen from the following table, compiled from figures suppliedbythe Registrar-General, showing the death-rates from all causes and the death-rates of infants under 1 year of age for the year 1920 :—

The relative position from a health point of view occupied byHackney as compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs maybeseen from the following table, compiled from figures suppliedbythe Registrar-General, showing the death-rates from all causes and the death-rates of infants under 1 year of age for the year 1920 :—

Boroughs.Death-rate from all causes per 1,000 Living.Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births.
Hampstead9.048
Wandsworth10.062
Woolwich10.460
Lewisham10.865
Paddington11.178
Hammersmith11.265
Fulham11.374
Camberwell11.570
City of Westminster11.671
Chelsea11.952
Greenwich11.972
Deptford12079
St. Pancras12.372
Battersea12.382
St. Marylebone12.565
HACKNEY12.781
Stoke Newington12.880
Lambeth13.067
Kensington13.081
Bermondsey13.084
City of London13.371
Islington13.371
Southwark14.486
Stepney14.487
Finsbury14.576
Poplar14.682
Bethnal Green14.795
Holborn14.964
Shoreditch15.491

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Infantile Mortality.—The deaths under 1 year of age in the
Borough during 1920 numbered 485. This is an increase of 130 upon
the number of infants' deaths recorded during 1919. The infant
mortality rate for the year is 81 per 1,000 births.
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