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The registration district of Hoxton New Town contains the Holborn Union
Workhouse, the inmates of which are not persons belonging to Shoreditch. The
number of inmates averaged during the year 1,410; during the past few years it has
been increasing. For statistical purposes generally the population of the Holborn
Union Workhouse is deducted from that of the New Town District, the population of
which district becomes 28,340 and that for the whole parish 120,120.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered was 4,131, of which 2,139 were males and 1,992
females. In the Shoreditch Infirmary there were 71 births, 37 of males and 34 of
females, of which 27 were legitimate and 44 illegitimate. In the Holborn Union
Workhouse there were 79 births, of which 45 were illegitimate, the male numbering
38 and the female births 41. The births were distributed in the four registration
districts of the parish as set out below:—

Deducting the births in the Holborn Union Workhouse, the mothers not being
Shoreditch parishioners, the birth rate was 337 per 1,000 inhabitants as compared
with 29.4 for the Metropolis. A comparison of the birth-rates in the several sub-districts
of the parish is shewn in table XXXI (see appendix). Shoreditch is a district which
has a high birth-rate, the average for the eight years 1891-98 being 35.5, as compared
with 30.4 for the Metropolis. During 1899 the births in Shoreditch were 1,141 in
excess of the deaths.
MARRIAGES.
The marriages registered in Shoreditch numbered 12957 being at the rate of 10.7
per 1,000 population, as compared with 92 per 1,000 for the Metropolis. The pro
portion of persons married in Shoreditch has increased from 15.8 per 1,000 in
1893 to 21.4 in 1899.