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Metropolitan Borough of backney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1937.
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 1937.
The year was a particularly satisfactory one from several
aspects. The table on page 13 shows that the general (crude)
death-rate (11.1 per 1,000 population as compared with 12.0 in
1936) and the infantile mortality-rate (43.4 per 1,000 births as
compared with 62.9 per 1,000 births in 1936) were both considerably
lower than the rates for England and Wales and London. Indeed,
only one London borough had a lower general death-rate and only
three boroughs a lower infantile mortality-rate. The infantile
mortality-rate of 43.4 per 1,000 births was the lowest ever recorded
in Hackney, but it should be remembered that there were during the
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