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metropolitan Borough of hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1912.
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 my Twenty-first Annual Report on the Public
Health of the Borough of Hackney. The year 1912 was noted for
its low general death rate, which was only 12.3 per 1,000 of the
population, and more especially for its low infant mortality, which
was 79 per 1,000 births. These figures show a decline of 2.7 per
1,000 in the general death rate and 11 per 1,000 births in the infant
mortality, compared with the corresponding rates for the year 1911.
A great decline in the prevalence of notifiable infectious disease was
also experienced, the total number of cases from all these diseases
being only 1,071, compared with 1,968 during the previous year.
The number of deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases numbered
108, which is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of .48 per
1,000 living, the corresponding figures for 1911 being 438 deaths
and a zymotic death rate of 1.9 per 1,000 living. The infectious
sickness rate and the mortality rates of the past 3'ear, therefore,
give a very encouraging and satisfactory view of the healthiness of
the Borough during 1912. The decline in the mortality rates were no