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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
MEDICAL OFFICERS REPORT.
FOR THE YEAR 1906.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Fifteenth Annual
Report on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The
year 1906 has been extremely satisfactory from a health point of
view. In spite of increasing density of population and the
increasing immigration of aliens, the general mortality for the year
was only 14.17 per 1,000 living. This is the lowest annual death
rate we have had for more than a decade. The infant mortality
rate, which was 123 per 1,000 births, was also considerably lower
than during the year 1905; and this, too, with a high atmospheric
temperature during the third quarter of the year. The notifiable
infectious disease was also less prevalent during 1906 than during
the previous year.
While the decline in the infant mortality during 1906 is very
satisfactory, the rate is still extremely high, and by suitable
preventive measures may be considerably reduced. The measures
most suitable to attain this end are contained in the resolutions
passed at the National Conference on Infant Mortality, which met
at Westminster in June of last year. These resolutions are given
on page 14 of this Report.