[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney].

  • Hackney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 ] Male. Female. Total. Legitimate 1,684 1,553 3,237 Illegitimate 66 56 122 Totals 1,750 1,609 3,359 The following table shows the births and birth-rates for the year in the Borough and the various Electoral Wards:- District. Births. Birth.rates. The Borough 3,359 15.5 Stamford Hill 561 16.6 West Hackney 266 14.2 Kingsland 319 14.5 Downs 295 17.0 Clapton Park 600 14.4 Homerton 497 14.2 South Hackney 411 18.6 Hackney 410 15.1 The number of births and the birth-rates in England and Wales, London and Hackney in 1931, together with the rates for the previous four years are shown below:- District. 1931. Birth-rates in previous years. No. of Births. Birth . rate. 1930. 1929. 1928. 1927. England and Wales 632,580 15.8 16.3 16.3 16.7 16.7 London 65,684 15.0 15.7 15.7 15.9 16.1 Hackney 3,359 15.5 16.4 15.9 16.0 15.7 Section 7 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, requires the registration of every still-born child. The number of still.births registered in the Borough during the year was 131. Of this total, 35 have been allocated by the Registrar.General to other districts, whilst the births of 27 still-born children in outlying areas have been transferred to Hackney. The corrected figure is, there fore, 123. This represents a rate for the Borough of 0.56 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 0.50 for London as a whole. The total number of illegitimate births registered in the Borough during the year 1931 was 329, but of these the Registrar.
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