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Hackney 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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still-born children), but of these the Registrar-General states that
206 should be transferred to districts outside the Borough, as the
mothers were not Hackney residents, and 30 births which took place
in other districts should be transferred to Hackney. These corrections
having been made, there remain 110 illegitimate births
amongst Hackney residents. This is equivalent to an illegitimate
birth-rate of 35.9 per 1,000 total births.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.—Under the provisions of this
Act, notifications were received of the birth within the Borough of
3,459 live children and 111 still-born children. Information with
regard to the birth of children to Hackney mothers at addresses
outside the Borough was received in respect of 767 living and 31
still-born children, whilst particulars of the birth of children within
the Borough whose home addresses were situated in other areas were
forwarded in the case of 1,300 living and 44 still-born children.
The following table shows the sources from which the notifications of birth (corrected and uncorrected) were received :—
| Medical Practitioners. | Midwives. | Parents and others. | Total. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | Live Births. | Still Births. | Live Births. | Still Births. | Live Births. | Still Births. | |||||||||
| Corrected | M. | F. | M. | F. | M . | F . | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M . | F. | M. | F. |
| 105 | 104 | 4 | 3 | 1109 | 1030 | 43 | 31 | 319 | 259 | 10 | 7 | 1533 | 1393 | 57 | 41 | |
| Uncorrected | 104 | 103 | 4 | 2 | 1580 | 1448 | 48 | 54 | 126 | 98 | 2 | 1 | 1810 | 1649 | 54 | 57 |
DEATHS.
The deaths registered in the Borough during 1935 numbered
2,360, but of these 767 were deaths of non-residents who died inside
the Borough. There were, however, 641 residents of Hackney who
died during the year outside the Borough. On making the necessary
corrections, the corrected number of deaths amongst Hackney
residents is 2,234. This is a decrease of 247 upon the number of
deaths occurring during 1934. The crude death-rate from all
causes for the year 1935 is 10.6 per 1,000 of the population.
The crude death-rate of an area is not strictly comparable with
that for the country as a whole or with that for any other district
by reason of the variation of the sex and age group components of
which the populations are constituted. In order that a more
accurate index of the mortality-rates of the various areas might be
arrived at, the Registrar-General has furnished adjusting factors,
based upon average mortality-rates experienced in England and