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Of 473 persons belonging to Shoreditch dying in public institutions situate beyond
the limits of the Borough, 325 died in general hospitals, including 93 in hospitals
for children; 35 died in the fever hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board; 69
died in asylums; 14 in hospitals for special diseases; 23 in workhouses and infirmaries,
and 7 in other institutions. Elsewhere than in public institutions 18 persons
belonging to Shoreditch died beyond the limits of the Borough. Altogether 946
persons belonging to Shoreditch died in public institutions. Including the eighteen
persons who did not die in public institutions, 964 persons belonging to the Borough
died elsewhere than in their homes.
SICKNESS AMONGST THE POOR.
The cases coming under the treatment of the district medical officers in connection
with the poor law dispensary during 1906, numbered 4,107, as compared with 4,014
in 1905. An analysis of the cases is contained in Table VIII. (Appendix). The
diseases classed as infectious accounted for 662 of the cases, chiefly of consumption,
diarrhoea, influenza, measles and whooping cough. Diseases of the respiratory system,
which are to a very large extent the result of infection, were responsible for 1,043
cases, of which 913 were of bronchitis and 61 of pneumonia. There were 296 cases
of rheumatism and 94 of gout. Dyspepsia, and other disorders of the digestive system
accounted for 430 cases. Cases of cancer were more numerous than usual, numbering
43, as compared with 37 in 1905, 27 in 1904, 30 in 1903, 12 in 1902, 31 in
1901, 33 in 1900, 18 in 1899, 9 in 1898, 15 in 1897, 21 in 1896, 15 in 1895, 27 in
1894, and 23 in 1893.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The infectious diseases included under the headings numbered 1 to 35 in Table
VI. (Appendix) resulted in 776 deaths, as compared with 717 in 1905, 791 in 1904,
762 in 1903, 767 in 1902, and 762 in 1901. The deaths from these diseases were, during
1906, somewhat above the average for the previous five years, and they amounted
to nearly 34 per cent. of the deaths from all causes. The increase in the number of
deaths from these infectious diseases for last year mainly resulted from the larger number
of deaths from diarrhoea. Deaths from consumption and the other forms of
disease caused by the tubercle bacillus made up from forty to fifty per cent. of the
whole, and of the remainder, diarrhoea, measles, and whooping cough accounted for
the major portion. The death-rate from these infectious diseases was 6.7 per 1,000
inhabitants, as compared with 6.2 in 1905, 6.8 in 1904, and 6.5 in 1903.