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Metropolitan Borough of backney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1917.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, E. 8.
August, 1918.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present herewith my Twenty-sixth Annual Report
on the Public Health of the Borough of Hackney. The general
death-rate for the year 1917 was 14 5 per 1,000 of the population
and the infant mortality rate 92 per 1,000 births. These figures
show a slight increase in the general death-rate and in the infant
death-rate, compared with the year 1916.
There were 3,016 cases of acute infectious disease notified
during the year, giving an attack rate of 15 per 1,000 living.
The deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases numbered 154,
which is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of .78 per 1,000
living. A slight increase in the mortality from tuberculosis
took place during the year, the mortality rate being 1.8 per 1,000
living. This subject is dealt with in detail on page 17, and that of
infant welfare work on page 33.
Detailed reference to the preventive measures taken in
connection with the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis is made
on page 23.