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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF
FOR THE YEAR 1922.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
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 1922.
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 Death,
Birth and Infantile Mortality Rates for the past ten years is set
out on page 32.
The birth-rate is 21.0 per 1,000 for Hackney, the same figure
as that for the whole of the County of London.
The death-rate for Hackney for the past year is 12.7, and
although this is an increase on the rate for the previous year,
it appears from the Registrar General's returns that there has been
a slight increase in all London Boroughs with the sole exception
of Chelsea, and the rate for the whole County of London is, of