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Hackney 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
TOWN HALL, HACKNEY E 8
August, 1961
To His Worship the Mayor and to the Aldermen and
Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the Borough for the year 1960. This is the one hundred and
fifth report in the series of health reports submitted, and is the ninth which
I personally have had the privilege of writing.
Population. The mid-year population of the Borough, as estimated by the
Registrar General, was 163,050 persons, 150 fewer than in 1959. The
sixteenth Census of the population of England and Wales was taken on the 23 April, 1961.
The Registrar General ' s Preliminary Report on that Census has now been received, and the following figures extracted therefrom are provisional, and relate to the numbers only, by sex, of the population, and to the numbers of private dwellings and households in local authority areas.
| Area | Acreage | Population 1961 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons | Males | Females | ||
| London Administrative County | 74, 898 | 3,195, 114 | 1, 522, 380 | 1,672,734 |
| Hackney | 3, 293 | 164, 556 | 78,847 | 85,709 |
| Area | Population 1951 | |||
| Persons | Males | Females | ||
| London Administrative County | 3, 347,956 | 1, 565, 873 | 1 782,083 | |
| Hackney | 171, 342 | 80.837 | 90, 505 | |
| Area | Population Intercensal increase | |||
| Numbers | Per cent | |||
| London Administrative County | - 152,842 | -4.6 | ||
| Hackney | 6,786 | - 4.0 | ||
| Area | Private households | |||
| 1961 | 1951 | Intercensal increase | ||
| Number | Per cent | |||
| London Administrative County | 1, 109, 449 | 1,120,701 | - 11 252 | - 1.0 |
| Hackney | 57, 331 | 57 , 6 54 | 323 | - 0.6 |
| Area | Private dwellings | |||
| 1961 | 1951 | Intercensal increase | ||
| Number | Per cent | |||
| London Administrative County | 944,403 | 798,833 | 145 , 570 | 18. 2 |
| Hackney | 42,335 | 39, 560 | 2, 775 | 7. 0 |