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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1926.
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,
I have the honour to submit, in accordance with the instructions
of the Ministry of Health, the Annual Report on the health of the
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1926.
A comparative table for the Borough, showing the death, birth
and infantile mortality rates for the past 10 years is set out on
page 33.
The death-rate for Hackney for the past year is 10'8, a slight
decrease on the previous year's rate of 10'9, this rate being also
below the County rate, which is 11'6, as compared with 11'7 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 59,
as compared with 65 for the previous year; the Borough average
during the last five years 1922-1926 is 63, as compared with 87 for
the previous five years. The figure for London for the year 1926
is 64. The returns for 1926 show the lowest death and infantile
mortality rates ever recorded in the Borough.
The position of Hackney, as compared with the other Metropolitan
Borough, is very satisfactory, and has improved since last
year, as is shown by the following table, which gives the death rates
and infantile mortality rates in the London Boroughs.