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Hackney 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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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 628 66 are public open spaces. The Borough Council is
responsible for some 14 acres of open space and the County Council for 614.66
acres
The Borough is residential as well as industrial in character and for
local government electoral purposes is divided into 16 wards, three Councillors
representing each ward.
The Housing Report published by the Registrar General in 1956, following
the census of 1951, revealed 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 as at 1st April, 1957 was £2r347,073 and the revised
estimated product of a penny rate for the year 1957/58 was £9,290. The
estimated number of inhabited hereditaments at the end of the year was
40,248.

The population of the borough as enumerated at the census of 1931 and that of 1951 was

19311951
PersonsMalesFemalesPersonsMalesFemales
215,33399,794115, 539171,34280,83790, 505

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