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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch,
ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
TOWN HALL,
OLD STREET, E.C.,
January, 1903.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
SIR and GENTLEMEN,
Herewith I beg to submit my report as to the public health, sanitary condition,
and vital statistics of the Borough of Shoreditch for the year ending December 31st,
1902.
POPULATION.
The estimated number of persons in Shoreditch for the year under consideration
is 117,948, distributed in the four registration sub-districts as follows:—Shoreditch
South, 15,927; Hoxton New Town, 29,636; Hoxton Old Town, 26,385; and
Haggerston, 46,000. In Hoxton New Town is situate the Holbom Union Workhouse,
the inmates of which, numbering at the 1901 census 1,375, are not persons belonging
to Shoreditch. For certain statistical purposes the population of the Holborn Union
Workhouse is not included in that of Shoreditch, and the number of persons in the
Hoxton New Town registration sub-district becomes, therefore, for these purposes
28,261, and the population for the whole borough 116,573.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year 1902 was 3,992, of which 2,049
were male and 1,943 female. In the Shoreditch Infirmary there were 85 births—44
of males and 41 of females. Of these 37 were entered as legitimate, and 48 illegitimate.