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The Death-rate for Hackney is 11.5, as compared with 12.4
for the County of London, and is slightly higher than the Deathrate
of three of the Metropolitan Boroughs.
The Zymotic Death-rate is 0.7, as compared with 1.09, the
figure for 1920. The number of scarlet fever cases notified during
1921 was 1,863, as compared with 1,077 during 1920, and the
number of diphtheria cases notified during 1921 was 872, as compared
with 764 during 1920.
The deaths from scarlet fever numbered only 11, and the deaths
from diphtheria 46, being 24 less than those registered in 1920.
Table II., page 41, gives the number of cases of infection
diseases notified and removed to hospital during 1921.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
The .Maternity and Child Welfare work in Hackney has been
further extended during the year. An additional infant Welfare
Centre was opened in February by the Council at Northwold
Road, and the Hackney Grove Voluntary Infant Welfare
Association opened in October an additional centre for the
Hackney Grove District, so that there are now seven centres
operating in Hackney; four municipal, and three voluntary. The
work of Eton Mission Welfare Centre has also been increased in
scope by the institution of an Ante-Natal Clinic, and an additional
annual grant of £50 per annum by the Council was sanctioned
by the Ministry to date from March 31st. At Overbury Street
Centre a weekly, instead of a fortnightly, Ante-Natal Clinic, and
an additional Child Welfare Clinic were put into operation.
Sanction to an additional session at Brooksbys Walk AnteNatal
Centre, to the institution of a Dental Clinic, and to other
suggested extensions of the work was refused by the Ministry of
Health. An agreement was entered into with the Invalid
Children's Aid Association to provide convalescent aid to children
found at the Centres to be in need of such treatment, see
page 81.