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Hackney 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND VITAL STATISTICS
Hackney, one of the County of London's twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs
is situate in the north-eastern part of the County. The Metropolitan Boroughs
of Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and Poplar lie to the south, the Metropolitan
Boroughs of Islington and Stoke Newington to the west, the Municipal Borough of
Tottenham to the north, and the Boroughs of Walthamstow and Leyton form the
eastern boundaries. The total area of the borough is some 3,287 acres, of
which some 628,66 are public open spaces. The Borough is residential as well
as industrial in character, and is divided into sixteen Wards for Local Government
electoral purposes, each Ward being represented by three Councillors.
The rateable value at the 1st April was £2.674.282 and the product
of a penny rate for the financial year 1960-61 was estimated to be £10,670.
The number of inhabited hereditaments at the end of the year was 41,261.

The sixteenth Censusof the population of England and Wales was taken on the night of April 23rd, 1961 and the following provisional statistics are extracted from the Registrar General's Preliminary Report:-

AreaAcreagePopulation 1961
PersonsMalesFemales
London Administrative County74,8983, 195,1141,522,3801,672,734
Hackney3,293164,55678,84785,709
Population 1951
PersonsMalesFemales
London Administrative County3,347,9561 565,87 31,782,083
Hackney171,34280,83790,505
Population Intercensal increase
NumbersPer cent
London Administrative County-152.842-4.6
Hackney-6.786-4.0
Private households
19611951Intercensal increase
NumbersPer cent
London Administrative County1,109,4491,120,70111.2521.0
Hackney57,33157,6543230.6
Private dwellings
19611951Intercensal increase
NumbersPer cent
London Administrative County944,403798,833145,57018,2
Hackney42,33539,5602,7757,0

The population of the Borough as enumerated at the Census of 1931 was
215,333 (Males 99 794 and Females 115 539).