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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 £2,691,332 and the product of
a penny rate for the financial year 1962 53 was estimated to be £10 801.
The number of inhabited hereditaments at the end of the year was 41, 587.
The sixteenth Census of the population of England and Wales was taken
on the night of April 23rd, 1961 and the following provisional statistics
are extracted from the Register General s Preliminary Report:-
Area Acreage Population 1961
Persons Males Females
London Administrative County 74,898 3,195 114 1,522,380 1672,734
Hackney 3,293 164, 556 78 847 8 5 709
Population 1951
Persons Males Females
London Actainistrative County 3,347,956 1,565,873 1 782,083
Hackney 171,342 80,837 90,505
Population
Intercensal increase
Numbers Per cent
London Administrative County 152.842 4 6
Hackney 6,786 - 4 0
Private households
1961 1951 Intercensal increase
Numbers Per cent
London Administrative County 1 109,449 1 120,701 11 252 - 10
Hackney 57,331 57 654 - 323 -0.6
Private dwellings
1961 1951 Intercensal increase
Numbers Per cent
London Administrative County 944 403 798 833 145 570 18 2
Hackney 42,335 39,560 2 775 7 0
The population of the Borough as enumerated at the Census of 1931 was
215,333 (Males 99,794 and Females 115,539).