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averaged 24 and 22 per 1,000 respectively; during the fifteen years ending 1900,
the rates for Shoreditch and London have averaged 23.0 and 19'4 respectively. There
thus appeirs a total decrease for Shoreditch of 2.0 and for London of 4.6 per 1,000
in the average death-rate of the last as compared with the first fifteen years of the
period embraced in the above table. An analysis and comparison of the death-rates
for the year 1900, in Shoreditch and its sub-districts, and the age distribution and
causes of death in the Borough and its sub-districts are contained in the appendix
(See tables I., II., IV., V., VI., VII.)
According to the figures the death rate was highest in Shoreditch South, and
lowest in Hoxton Old Town. The Borough death-rate was, owing mainly to the
prevalence of chest diseases and influenza, above the average for the year during the
months of January, February, and March ; it was below the average from the middle
of April until the middle of July ; diarrhoea caused an elevation until the middle of
August, when it again sank below the average and remained low until the beginning
of November ; diseases of the respiratory organs, and measles, sent the rate up during
November, but it was again below the average during December.