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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 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH. For Whole District.
| Year. | Population estimated to middle of each Year. | Births. | Deaths under one Tear op Age | Deaths at all Ages. Total. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in District. | Deaths of residents registered beyond D strict. | Deaths at all Ages. Nett. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Rate* | N umber. | Rate per 1000 Births registered. | Number | Rate* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||
| l | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1893 | 123520 | 4446 | 35.5 | 807 | 186 | 3198 | 26.1 | 862 | 436 | 384 | 3146 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 123520 | 4332 | 34.5 | 704 | 166 | 2582 | 21.0 | 825 | 428 | 312 | 2466 | 20.1 |
| 1895 | 123190 | 4352 | 34.8 | 867 | 203 | 2968 | 24.3 | 813 | 434 | 326 | 2860 | 23.4 |
| 1896 | 122308 | 4364 | 36.0 | 786 | 183 | 2620 | 21.6 | 680 | 367 | 369 | 2622 | 21.6 |
| 1897 | 122058 | 4325 | 35.0 | 789 | 186 | 2662 | 21.8 | 783 | 392 | 356 | 2626 | 21.7 |
| 1898 | 121740 | 4281 | 35.1 | 846 | 199 | 2709 | 22.2 | 761 | 371 | 366 | 2704 | 22.4 |
| 1899 | 121530 | 4131 | 33.7 | 854 | 210 | 2982 | 24.5 | 905 | 429 | 358 | 2911 | 24.2 |
| Averages for years 1893-99 | 122079 | 4318 | 34.8 | 807 | 190 | 2817 | 23.0 | 775 | 402 | 353 | 2762 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 121335 | 4023 | 32.9 | 741 | 187 | 2689 | 22.2 | 790 | 472 | 350 | 2576 | 21.4 |
Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths included in Column 7 of this table are the whole of those registered
during the year as having actually occurred within the district. The deaths
included in Column 12 are the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction of the
number in Column 10 and the addition of the number in Column 11
By the term " Non-residents " is meant persons brought into the district on account of
illness, and dying there ; and by the term " Residents " is meant persons who have been
taken out of the district on account of illness, and have died elsewhere.
In calculating the birth-rate and the net death-rate the inmates of the Holborn Union
Workhouse, as they belong to other sanitary areas, have been excluded from the populations
estimated above.
Area of District in acres
(exclusive of area
covered by water)
648.
Total population at all ages, 124,009
Number of inhabited houses, 13,768
Average number of persons
per house 9.0
At Census
of 1891.