It’s been revealed that Hackney, London’s hipster enclave, has one of the highest rates of STIs in the city.
Hackney shone out for all the wrong reasons in a report by Public Health England (PHE).
The borough not only has one of the highest STI rates in London, but has the highest rate of chlamydia in 15 – 24-year-olds in the country, with 4,270 residents per 100,000 testing positive for the disease.
Despite it’s trendy reputation and sky-high house prices, Hackney is still one of the most deprived boroughs in London, and that is thought to be one of the main contributing factors behind these statistics.