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Hackney 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: 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.

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.

Deaths per 1,000 Population.Infantile Deaths per 1,000 Births.
Lewisham10.0Lambeth38
Woolwich10.2Lewisham40
Wandsworth10.3Woolwich43
City of London10.4Stoke Newington48
Hampstead10.6Deptford56
Stoke Newington10.7Hackney59
Hackney10.8Westminster59
Greenwich10.8HampsteadGO
Fulham10.8Kensington60
Camberwell11.0Bermondsey60
Deptford11.3Greenwich61
Battersea11.4Battersea61
Poplar11.4Wandsworth04
Hammersmith11.4Chelsea64
Lambeth11.5Fulham64
Stepney11.5Stepney65
Westminster11.6Islington66
Bethnal Green11.6Hammersmith66
St. Marylebone11.9Shoreditch66
Islington12.0Finsbury66
Holborn12.1City of London66
Bermondsey12.1Camberwell70
Shoreditch12.2Southwark70
St. Pancras12.4Poplar70
Chelsea12.5Rethnal Green70
Paddington12.6St. Pancras76
Southwark12.7St. Marylebone81
Kensington12.8Paddington86
Finsbury12.9Holborn90

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The zymotic death-rate is '46 as compared with '49, the figure
for 1925. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified during 1926
was 758, as compared with 531 in 1925, and the number of
Diphtheria cases notified in 1926 was 655, as compared with 666
during 1925. The deaths from Scarlet Fever numbered only 4, the
same figure as the previous year, and the deaths from Diphtheria 21,
being 9 less than those registered in 1925. The question of