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5
PHYSICAL FEATURES, SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND
VITAL STATISTICS
The Borough of Hackney is situated in the extreme north eastern part of
the County of London The Metropolitan Boroughs of Shoreditch, Bethnal Green
and Poplar lie to the south, and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Islington and
Stoke Newington to the west; to the north lies the Borough of Tottenham and
to the east the Boroughs of Walthamstow and Leyton.
Of the Borough's total area of 3,287 acres, approximately 609 acres are
public open spaces and of that area 10.9 acres are maintained by the Borough
Council and 598,45 acres by the London County Council, The character of the
Borough is industrial as well as residential.
At the 1951 census the number of structurally separate dwellings, occupied
and vacant, was 40,041 and the number of households 57,654. Some 56.7
per cent. of the households shared a dwelling, and the density of occupation,
that is persons per room, was 0.85.
The rateable value of the Borough at 1st April was £1,441,045 and the
estimated product of a penny rate was £5,845.
Census 1951
The 1951 census statistics relate to the living population as enumerated
at midnight 8th-9th April, 1951, and the first of the Registrar General's
County Reports, namely that relating to London, was published in 1953. The
following statistics are taken from that report but the report as a whole contains
a vast amount of information which is of considerable local interest and
well worthy of detailed study. It will be noted that the population of the
Borough in the intercensal 20-year period 1931-1951 decreased by 43,991 or
20 4 per cent. whilst in the same period the population of the Administrative
County of London decreased by 1,049,021 a percentage of 23 9. The statistics
for England and Wales as a whole for the same period show an increase of
3,792,547 persons or 9.5 per cent