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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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| Districts. | Estimated population 1898. | Annual Rate per 1000 persons living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births. | percentage to total deaths. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| births | total deaths during | deaths from | Inquest Cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Uncertified Causes of Death. | |||||||||||||||
| Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small.Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough. | *Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Tubercular Diseases. | Violence. | |||||||||||
| 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | |||||||||||||||||
| London | 4,463,169 | 30.5 | 19.8 | 17.7 | 18.3 | 0.00 | 0.68 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 0.48 | 0.13 | 0.97 | 2.4 | 0.78 | 167.0 | 9.0 | 29.1 | 0.6 | ||
| Shoreditch | §120,370 | 35.1 | 23.4 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 4.1 | — | 0.83 | 0.14 | 1.79 | 0.92 | 199.8 | 12.5 | — | ||||||
| Shoreditch South | 17,100 | 30.4 | 24.7 | 23.3 | 3.7 | — | 0.76 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.46 | 2.9 | 0.93 | 168.5 | 9.7 | 42.7 | — | ||||
| Hoxton New Town | 28,380 | 35.4 | 25.3 | 20.3 | 21.5 | 3.9 | — | 1.02 | 0.17 | 0.84 | 0.14 | 1.58 | 2.3 | 0.84 | 200.5 | 23.2 | — | |||
| Hoxton Old Town | 27,365 | 37.2 | 22.4 | 19.9 | 22.7 | 4.3 | — | 0.51 | 0.14 | 0.62 | 0.84 | 0.07 | 2.9 | 0.69 | 18.5 | — | ||||
| Haggerston | 47,525 | 36.4 | 24.3 | 23.3 | 22.5 | 4.2 | — | 0.94 | 0.21 | 0.44 | 1.55 | 2.9 | 196.0 | 12.3 | 27.7 | — | ||||
* Fever includes Typhus, Typhoid, and continued Fevers.
§The inhabitants of the Holborn Union Workhouse, which is situate in Hoxton New Town Sub.District, are not included.
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate per 1000 within two places of decimals, 0.00 is inserted;
where no deaths have occurred, a line is placed in the space under the heading.