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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney covers an area of
3,292.389 acres (land and inland water 3,287.192 acres, and tidal
water 5.197 acres), and is divided into four Registration Subdistricts—North,
Central, South-West and South-East Hackney.
POPULATION.
The population of the Borough, as ascertained at the last Census
(1931), was 215,380 (provisional figure). The Registrar-General
has estimated that at mid-1931 the population was 217,000. This
latter figure gives a density of population of 65.9 persons per acre.
The following table shows the estimated population and density of
population of London, Hackney and each of the Registration Subdistricts
of the Borough:-
Registration Sub-district.
London. Hackney.
South- SouthNorth.
Central. west. east.
Estimated population 4,374,300 217,000 54,960 51,310 55,610 55,120
Area in acres 74,816 3,292 1,083 858 586 765
Persons per acre 58.4 65.9 50.7 59 .8 94.9 72.0
PHYSICAL FEATURES AND GENERAL CHARACTER
OF THE AREA.
The Borough varies in elevation between 16 feet and 110 feet
above ordnance datum. The north-west portion lies on yellow clay,
and there is a considerable area on a bed of gravel and sand of
varying depths. Other portions are on brick earth, and in the Lee
Valley there is a bed of alluvial gravel. Underlying the whole of
the Borough is the London blue clay which in a few places appears
near the surface.
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1921) 33,495
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1931)
according to Rate Books ... ... ... 35,570
Number of families or separate occupiers
(1921) 56,020
Rateable value (December, 1931) £1,428,287
Sum represented by a penny rate £5,856
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The population is mainly working class, and the chief occupations
are the manufacture of boots, shoes, cabinets and pianos, and
the production of tailored clothes. The factories and workshops
are in very good condition, and the sanitary arrangements are kept
under constant supervision.