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8
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, 1958 was £2,338,523 and the estimated
product of a penny rate for the year 1958/59 was £9,340. The estimated number
of inhabited hereditaments at the end of the year was 40,480.

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