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Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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year amounted to 36 per cent, of the children born during the year, as compared
with 36.1 in 1902 fnd 44.4 in 1901. The cases in which vaccination was postponed
are included in calculating these percentages. Conscientious objection certificates
were granted in respect to 23 children, or 0.6 per cent. of the births during the
year, as compared with 0.3 per cent. for the previous two years.
SCARLET FEVER.
The cases certified during 1906 numbered 629, as compared with 789 in 1905,
343 in 1904, and 255 in 1903. In 34, or 5.4 per cent., intimations were received
from the Metropolitan Asylums Board that the patients were not suffering from scarlet
fever, the diagnosis being tonsillitis in 6, measles 5, erythema 6, enteric fever 2,
Rotheln 2, nephritis 1, rhinorrhœa 1, and not scarlet fever or not notifiable in 11
instances. The corrected number of cases was, therefore, 595, as compared with 771
in 1905, 320 in 1904, and 237 in 1903.
The distribution of the cases certified and the deaths amongst males and females during the year in the Borough and its eight wards is as shown in the subjoined table:—
| Wards. | SCARLET FEVER. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications. | Fatal Cases. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Moorfields | 10 | 17 | 27 | 1 | ... | 1 |
| Church | 46 | 44 | 90 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hoxton | 59 | 56 | 115 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Wenlock | 58 | 62 | 120 | ... | 1 | 1 |
| Whitmore | 63 | 60 | 123 | 6 | ... | 6 |
| Kingsland | 25 | 32 | 57 | 2 | ... | 2 |
| Haggerston | 18 | 37 | 55 | ... | 1 | 1 |
| Acton | 25 | 17 | 42 | ... | 1 | 1 |
| Total for Borough | 304 | 325 | 629 | 14 | 6 | 20 |
The cases are grouped according to ages in Table III. (Appendix). Of the cases
certified, 612, or 97.4 per cent., were removed to hospital, as compared with 97 per
cent. in 1905 and 96 in 1904. The percentages for previous years are given in the
report for 1903.
The cases certified were at the rate of 5.3 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with
6.7 in 1905, 2.9 in 1904, 2.1 in 1903, 2.1 in 1902, 4.7 in 1901, and 2.7 in 1900. The
cases were most numerous and the attack-rates highest in Whitmore, Wenloek and
Hoxton Wards, and lowest in Acton and Haggerston Wards. The deaths numbered
20( as compared with 27 in 1905 and 13 in 1904, and the death-rate was 0.17, as