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Shoreditch 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Shelter 26
Sickness amongst the poor 9
Slaughter-houses 35
Small-pox 13
Smoke nuisance 34
Staff 45
Street markets and food 40
Tetanus 23
Tuberculosis 23
Vaccination returns 13
Verminous houses 35
Violence, mortality from 7
Water supply 26
Whooping cough 22
Workshops on register 36
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 9
Zymotic death rate 9
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables:—
For whole district during 1906 and previous years (Table I.) 48
For separate localities in 1906 (Table II.) 49
Cases of infectious disease notified during 1906 (Table III.) 50
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1906 (Tables IV. and VI.) 51,54
Infantile mortality during 1906 (Table V.) 52
Notes to Tables IV. and V. 53
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth a nd death rates in 1906
(Table VII.) 60
Cases treated by District Medical Officer in 1906 (Table VIII.) 61
Summary of proceedings under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table
IX.) 62
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) 63-65