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Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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laying. In the great majority, the houses in which the cases occurred were in a satisfactory
or fairly satisfactory sanitary condition. In three instances the drains were
found defective.
The cases of enteric fever certified in the metropolis numbered 1,608, and the
deaths 260, the attack-rate and death-rate being 0.3 and 0.05 per 1,000 respectively.
ERYSIPELAS.
The cases certified as erysipelas numbered 144, as compared with 138 in 1905,
183 in 1904, 147 in 1903, and 172 in 1902. The deaths numbered 2, as compared
with 3 in 1905, 5 in 1904, 7 in 1903, 8 in 1902, 6 in 1901, 10 in 1900, 16 in 1899,
11 in 1898, 5 in 1897, 3 in 1896, 5 in 1895, 5 in 1894, and 15 in 1893.
The cases and deaths amongst males and females in the Borough and its eight wards were distributed as set out below:—
| Ward. | ERYSIPELAS. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases Certified. | Fatal Cases. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Moorfields | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||
| Church | 12 | 11 | 23 | |||
| Hoxton | 9 | 12 | 21 | |||
| Wenlock | 8 | 12 | 20 | 2 | 2 | |
| Whitmore | 7 | 13 | 20 | |||
| Kingsland | 5 | 14 | 19 | |||
| Haggerston | 4 | 11 | 15 | |||
| Acton | 7 | 10 | 17 | |||
| Total for Borough | 55 | 89 | 144 | 2 | 2 | |
The death-rate was 0.01 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with 0.02 in 1905,
0.04 in 1904, 0.06 in 1903, 0.06 in 1902, 0.05 in 1901, 0.08 in 1900. and 0.13 in
1899. The deaths were at the rate of 1.3 per cent. of the cases certified, as compared
with 2.1 per cent. in 1905, 2.6 in 1904, 4.7 in 1903, 4.6 in 1902, 4.2 in 1901,
5.8 in 1900, and 8 per cent. in 1899.
Pyæmia and Septicaemia (blood poisoning) were given as the cause of 14 deaths,
4 of males and 10 of females. Infective endocarditis (a form of heart disease) resulted
in three deaths. There were also six deaths attributed to other septic diseases allied
to the foregoing.