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Metropolitan Borough of hacknep
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1933
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 1933.
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 birth-rate of the Borough has continued to decline, the
rate for 1933 being 14.0 per 1,000 of the population as compared
with 14.5 in 1932. The birth-rate for London in 1933 was 13.2.
The death-rate of the Borough for the year was 11.5 as compared
with 12.2 for London as a whole.
The infant mortality-rate shows a further reduction from 53.9
per 1,000 births in 1932 to 50.6 in 1933, the rate for London being 59.
In common with other London boroughs, Hackney had a greater
number of cases of both scarlet fever and diphtheria in 1933 than
in the previous year. Fortunately the cases of scarlet fever, which
numbered 1,097, were mostly of a mild type and only six deaths
resulted, as compared with five deaths among 631 cases in 1932.
There were, however, 19 deaths among the 385 cases of diphtheria
which occurred during the year, as compared with 11 deaths among