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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1925.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Ministry of Health has given instructions that the Annual
Report for 1925 should be a Survey Report, and in the Report the
Medical Officer of Health should deal with:—
(a) The measure of progress made in the area during the preceding five
years;
(b) The extent and character of the changes made during that period in
the Public Health services of the area;
(c) Any further action of importance in the organisation and development
of the Public Health services contemplated by the local authority, or
considered desirable by the Medical Officer of Health.
A comparative table for the Borough, showing the death,
birth and infantile mortality rates for the past 10 years is set out
on page 30. It will be seen from the comparative table that the
death rate and infantile mortality rate for the past five years are a
considerable improvement on the preceding 5 years, and are, in
fact, the lowest ever recorded in the Borough.
The death rate for Hackney for the past year is 10.9, a
slight decrease on the previous year's rate of 11.4, this rate being
also below the County rate, which is 11.7 as compared witti 12.1
for the previous year.
The infantile mortality rate of the Borough, measured by the
number of deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births, was