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Hackney 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: The position of Hackney, as compared with the other Metropolitan Boroughs is very satisfactory—and appears to be improving—as is shown by the following table, which gives the death rates and infantile mortality rates in 1924.

The position of Hackney, as compared with the other Metropolitan Boroughs is very satisfactory—and appears to be improving—as is shown by the following table, which gives the death rates and infantile mortality rates in 1924.

Deaths per 1000 Population.Infantile Deaths per 1000 Births.
Lewisham10.4Lewisham47
Woolwich11.0Lambeth50
Wandsworth11.0Hampstead56
Fulham11.1Wandsworth57
Stoke Newington11.3Stoke Newington58
Hackney11.4Westminster59
Greenwich11.4Hackney60
Camberwell11.1Battersea62
Hampstead11.7Chelsea63
Battersea11.7Woolwich65
Deptford12.0Islington66
Westminster12.1Camberwell70
Poplar12.1Southwark71
Holborn12.2Poplar72
Stepney12.2Hammersmith72
Islington12.3Fulham72
Hammersmith12.4Greenwich73
Bethnal Green12.4St. Pancras74
Lambeth12.5Stepney74
St. Pancras13.0Kensington75
Kensington13.0Finsbury75
Paddington13.1Deptford76
Chelsea13.2Bermondsey78
St. Marylebone13.6St. Marylebone78
Bermondsey13.6Paddington78
Shoreditch13.7Bethnal Green78
Finsbury14.1Holborn81
Southwark14.2Shoreditch87

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The zymotic death-rate is 45 as compared with 34, the figure
for 1923. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified during 1924
was 528, as compared with 457 in 1923, and the number of
Diphtheria cases notified in 1924 was 546, as compared with 528
during 1923.
The deaths from Scarlet Fever numbered only 7, 2 more than
the previous year, and the deaths from Diphtheria 34, being 5
more than those registered in 1923.