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Hackney 1922

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922

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Table: The relative position from a health point of view occupied by Hackney as compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs may be seen from the following table, compiled from figures supplied by the Registrar-General, showing the death-rates from all causes and the death-rate of infants under 1 year of age for the year 1922:—

The relative position from a health point of view occupied by Hackney as compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs may be seen from the following table, compiled from figures supplied by the Registrar-General, showing the death-rates from all causes and the death-rate of infants under 1 year of age for the year 1922:—

Boroughs.Death rate from all causes per 1,000 living.Deaths under 1 year tc 1,000 births.
Hampstead11.156
Lewisham11.154
Wandsworth11.261
Woolwich11.662
Fulham12.068
HACKNEY12.772
City of Westminster12.954
Hammersmith12.971
Greenwich12.956
Stoke Newington12.967
Paddington12.969
Battersea13.169
Holborn13.266
Chelsea13.366
Camberwell13.478
Kensington13.682
St. Marylebone13.768
Lambeth13.777
Deptford13.874
Islington13.877
Stepney13.980
City of London13.981
Poplar14.379
St. Pancras14.674
Bethnal Green15.390
Southwark15.579
Finsbury16.382
Shoreditch16.3102
Bermondsey17.0101

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Infantile Mortality.—The deaths under 1 year of age in the
Borough during 1922 numbered 344. This is an increase of 15
upon the number of infants' deaths recorded during 1921. The
infant mortality rate for the year is 72 per 1,000 births.