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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
ACREAGE, PHYSICAL FEATURES AND GENERAL
CHARACTER OF THE AREA.
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney covers an area of
3,292389 acres (land and inland water 3,287.192 acres, and tidal
water 5.197 acres) and is divided into three Registration Subdistricts.
In 1900 the Borough was divided into 8 wards, and in
1936 the Council made application to the Home Secretary for an
Order to be made to alter that division of the Borough so as to
provide for 16 new wards to be created. This Order was duly made
and became operative on 1st November, 1937. In this Report,
however, the various statistics are given for the former 8 wards of
the Borough.
The Borough varies in elevation between 16 feet and 110 feet
above ordnance datum. The north-west portion lies on yellow clay,
and there is a considerable area on a bed of gravel and sand of
varying depths. Other portions are on brick earth, and in the Lee
Valley there is a bed of alluvial gravel. Underlying the whole of
the Borough is the London blue clay which in a few places appears
near the surface
INHABITED HOUSES.
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1931) 34,155
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1937)
according to Rate Books 37,859
RATEABLE VALUE.
Rateable Value (December, 1937) £1,501,888
Sum represented by a penny rate £6,110