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metropolitan Borough of hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1920.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMEI
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and, Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit, in accordance with the instructions
of the Ministry of Health, the Annual Report on the health of the
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920.
The report is presented in the form and sequence of subjects
suggested by the Ministry of Health ; but before proceeding to a
detailed description of the sanitary work of the Borough, a short
statistical summary and a comparative table as regards the Death,
Birth, Zymotic and Infantile Mortality Rates of Metropolitan
Boroughs will be found convenient for immediate reference.
A comparative table for the Borough showing the Birth, Death
and Infantile Mortality Rates for the past ten years is set out on
page 25.
The birth-rate is 26.6 per 1,000 for Hackney, as compared with
26.5 for the whole of the County of London.
The Infantile Mortality Rate for the Borough, measured by
the number of deaths under one year of age per thousand births
registered, is 81 as compared with 85, the figure for last year, the
Borough average during the last five years (1915 to 1919), is 96,
and the figure for all London is 75, as compared with 85 in 1919.