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9
SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND VITAL STATISTICS
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney is situate in the north-eastern
part of the County of London. On the south it adjoins the Metropolitan
Boroughs of Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and Poplar, and on the west the
Metropolitan Boroughs of Islington and Stoke Newington; to the north
lies the Municipal Borough of Tottenham, and to the east the boroughs of
Walthamstow and Leyton.
The total area of the borough comprises some 3,287 acres of which
approximately 625.56 are public open spaces. The Borough Council is
responsible for some 10.9 acres of open space and the County Council for
614.66 acres.
The borough is residential as well as industrial in character. For
local government electoral purposes the borough is divided into 16 wards
and three Councillors represent each ward.
The Housing Report published by the Registrar General in 1956,
following the census of 1951, reveals that at the time of the census the
occupied and retired males in the borough were, on the basis of occupational
grading divided into social classes in the following proportions:-
(a) Professional, etc. and intermediate occupations 12.6%
(b) Skilled occupations 61,4%
(c) Partly skilled and unskilled occupations 26.0%
The rateable value of the borough as at 1st April, 1956 was
£2,491,633 and the estimated product of a penny rate for the year
1956/57 was £10,050. The estimated number of inhabited hereditaments
at the end of the year was 40,455.

The following tables show the total population of the borough
with marital condition and age grouping at the 1951 census:-