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

  • Hackney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22 The following shows the death-rate of Hackney from all causes per 1,000, compared with London during the last decade Year. Hackney. London. Year. Hackney. London. 1914 13.9 14.4 1919 13.0 13.4 1915 14.9 16.1 1920 12.7 12.4 1916 13.8 14.3 1921 11.5 12.4 1917 14.6 15.0 1922 12.7 13.4 1918 18.9 18.9 1923 10.6 11.2 The relative position from a health point of view occupied by Hackney as compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs maybe seen from the following table, compiled from figures supplied by the Registrar-General, showing the death-rates from all causes and the death-rate of infants under 1 year of age for the year 1923 :— Boroughs. Death rate from all causes per 1,000 living. Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 births. Woolwich 9.9 43 Lewisham 10.14 43 Wandsworth 10.14 52 Stoke Newington 10.2 46 Hampstead 10.3 42 Fulham 10.5 64 City of Westminster 10.6 46 HACKNEY 10.6 58 Battersea 10.8 49 Greenwich 10.9 60 Camberwell 11.0 56 Stepney 11.0 62 Hammersmith 11.0 64 Deptford 11.1 59 Lambeth 11.2 42 City of London 11.2 60 Poplar 11.3 60 Bethnal Green 11.3 68 Islington 11.6 66 St. Marylebone 11.7 66 Paddington 11.7 69 St. Pancras 12.1 63 Holborn 12.1 79 Chelsea 12.2 58 Bermondsey 12.2 76 Kensington 12.3 70 Southwark 12.8 68 Finsbury 13.0 60 Shoreditch 13.0 82
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