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6
PHYSICAL FEATURES, SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND
VITAL STATISTICS
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney is one of London's 28 boroughs and
lies in the north eastern part of the County, The Boroughs of Shoreditch
Bethnal Green and Poplar lie to the south and on the west are the Boroughs of
Islington and Stoke Newington; on the north Hackney adjoins the Municipal
Borough of Tottenham and on the eastern boundary are the Boroughs of Walthamstow
and Leyton,
In the borough's total area of some 3,287 acres there are approximately
609 acres of public open spaces. The London County Council is responsible for
598.45 acres of open space and 10,9 acres are maintained by the Borough Council.
The borough is residential as well as industrial in character At the
1951 census the number of structurally separate dwellings, occupied and vacant,
was 40,041, and the number of households 57,654,. At the end of 1955, rate
book records showed the number of inhabited hereditaments to be 40,625, and the
estimated rateable value of the borough at April 1st was £1,450,238, A penny
rate produced £5,820,,
The types of dwelling throughout the borough vary from the terrace type of
urban dwellings of four to five rooms to the larger Victorian or Edwardian type
of basement house. Development in recent years has in the main provided large
blocks of flats.