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Metropolitan Borough of hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1932.
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 Article 14 (3)
of the Sanitary Officers' Order, 1926, my Annual Report upon the
sanitary circumstances, the sanitary administration, and the state
of the public health generally in the Metropolitan Borough of
Hackney during the year 1932.
From the comparative table on page 13 of this Report, which
shows the birth-rates, death-rates and infant mortality-rates for
the year in the 29 Metropolitan districts, it will be seen that
Hackney has preserved its favourable position in these respects.
The decline in the birth-rate, which has been noted throughout
the country as well as in Hackney, has continued, the Hackney
rate for 1932 being 14.5 per 1,000 of the population as compared
with 15.5 in the year 1931, but the rate for the Borough is still
higher than that for London as a whole, which is 14.3.
Although there have been fewer deaths, the reduction in the
Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the Borough has
resulted in an advance in the death-rate, which is calculated on
the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population, from 11.4 in
1931 to 11.5 in 1932. The rate for the County in 1932 was 12.3.
Hackney has for several years past enjoyed a favourable
position as compared with other London Boroughs in having a low
infant mortality-rate, and, although the rate for 1932 (53.9) is
not a low record for the Borough, the position that Hackney holds
this year in the comparative table is worthy of special mention.