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5
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 £8, 208 800 and the product of
a penny rate for the financial year 1963-64 was estimated to be £32,731.
The number of inhabited hereditaments at the end of the year was 41,750.