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Shoreditch 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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(A.) TABLE OF DEATHS during the 52 Weeks ending December 31st, 1899, 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. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) (a)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, Distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
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At all ages. (b)Under 1 year. (c)1 and under 5 (d)5 and under 15 (e)15 and under 25 (f)25 and under 65 (g)65 and upwards. (h)Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All other DiseasesTotal.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
St. Leonard, Shoreditch2,0777813324658596264Under 5 5 upwds...2112..1......127443183....22141535241113
....1....6....2..951144..14126812226365964
Shoreditch Infirmary and Workhouse4771912614249177Under 5 5 upwds.......................2..2......3..22231
..........6........4....73..8290504200446
Holborn Workhouse312192..397191Under 5 5 upwds...........................1............2021
....................1....8....988358142291
Hoxton House Asylum33......2238Under 5 5 upwds.............................................
..........1....................4..5..2333
North Eastern Hospital79363211......Under 5 5 upwds.....7..........................316..53768
....1......................................
Convent Hospital4..31......Under 5 5 upwds...........................1............23
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Totals2,9828553816477965640Under 5 5 upwds...2182..1......127643187....52331606051,236
....2....13....2..1451298237447212397371,746
The subjoined numbers have also been taken in judging of the above records of mortality.
Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto.3584484363313130Under 5 5 upwds...1038....1........13..4......22..643128
..310....11................2..2732262495230
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto.429453386134203Under 5 5 upwds.....7................1..2....311..54978
..........1........1....8....16924316174351