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Metropolitan Borough Of Hackney
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1938.
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 1938.
The report follows the outline indicated by Ministry of Health
Circular 1728, dated 25th October, 1938, and in this short, preface
reference is made to some of the more important contents of the
Report.
It is now eight years since the last Census of the population
was taken, and at that time the number of residents in the Borough
was 215,333. The Registrar-General has estimated that at the
middle of the year 1938 the population of the Borough was 205,200,
a decline of 10,133 since 1931. Many families have, of course,
removed in recent years to London County Council estates in other
districts, but this emigration has probably been to some extent
counterbalanced by the removal of families from surrounding