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Shoreditch 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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(B.) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, and of NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knoivledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year ending 31st December, 1895, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all aoes.Registered Births.Age under 5 or over 6.Sew Cases op Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
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Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1895.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.j Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.
Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
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Sob-Districts—
(1) Shoreditch Sonth20,09819,890518Under 5..22112..1..........36. .511..16
5 upwards54323. ...26....1..361345i13..12262
(2) Hoxton New Town29,31328,2001,043Under 5..55177............584..'J10..43
5 upwards183241..181......42170151121478
(3) Hoxton Old Town28,35428,700989Under 5..45242..1........880..221537
5 upwards27837....131......41173257197
(4) Haggerston46,24445,3501,802Under 5..99319..2........4145..5615174
5 upwards4167551..382......603284972319
Shoreditch Infirmary and Workhouse......Under'5..........................
5 upwards......................1. .. .. .
Holborn Infirmary......Under 5........................... .
5 upwards2..................352..2
Hoxton House......Under 5..............................
5 upwards......................... .
North-Eastern Hospital......Under 5..........................
5 upwards....................11. .. .. .
Convent Hospital......Under 5. ....................4........
5 upwards..........................
Total......Under 5..2218320..4........17345..1204532170
5 upwaids143711392..954..2118481214235675222372