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Metropolitan Borough of Hackeny
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1934.
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 1934. The Report for 1935 will be a
" Survey Report," describing the measure of progress and the
extent and character of the changes made during the preceding five
years in the Public Health Services of the Borough.
The Ministry of Health Circular 1417, which deals with the
contents and arrangement of the Annual Reports of Medical Officers
of Health for 1934, contains a request that figures should be included
showing the extent of unemployment and any evidence, statistical
or otherwise, that unemployment has exercised any significant
influence on the health or physique of children or adults. I have,
therefore, included in this Report three tables dealing with this
matter. The first of these tables shows the number of unemployed
residents of Hackney on the Registers of Employment Exchanges at
the end of each quarter of the years 1933 and 1934, the second table
gives particulars of the persons in receipt of domiciliary relief from
the Public Assistance Committee at the end of each quarter of 1933
and 1934, whilst the third table shows the results of the medical
inspection of children who commenced attendance at elementary
schools in 1934.
The figures as to the routine medical examination of school
entrants form the only available comprehensive statistical record of
the nutritional condition of a section of the population, and it is