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Hackney 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Metropolitan Borough of Backney+
MEDICAI. OFFICER'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1901.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
In presenting my Annual Report on the Health of the Borough of
Hackney for the year 1901, I am pleased to state that in spite of the
prevalence of infectious disease during a great part of the year, the
general death.rate was remarkably low, viz., 15.9 per 1000. Not
since the year 1894 has the annual death.rate been so low. The
zymotic death.rate was equally satisfactory being 2.2 per 1000 while
the rate for all London was 2.6 per 1000 living. The year showed
also a decline in the infant mortality, the rate for the Borough being
107.4 per 1000 births while that of all London equalled 149 per 1000
births.