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Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The number place upon the register during the year was 20, making a total of
303 since the bye-laws came into operation. The actual number of houses on the register
after making deductions for duplication consequent upon change of ownership
and for houses which have been demolished since registration is 266.
ARTIZANS' DWELLINGS.
The artizans' dwellings in the Borough were under observation during the year.
They comprise some 45 blocks, mostly situate in the Shoreditch south registration subdistrict.
A list of them is contained in the report for last year. To the list has been
added Crondall Dwellings, containing 16 tenements. The general sanitary condition
of the dwellings was remarked upon in my last report. Taking the dwellings as a
whole, from a sanitary point of view they are satisfactory, although in some instances
they could bo improved. For the purposes of comparison, they have been divided
into two classes, A and B; class A including those occupicd on the whole
by persons in comfortable or fairly comfortable circumstances, and class B those
occupied by people apparently in very poor circumstances.
The numbers of tenements, rooms, and persons in the dwellings estimated for the year 1906 are contained in the subjoined table:—
| Number of blocks. | Number of tenements. | Number of rooms. | N umber of persons. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class A | 30 | 1499 | 3867 | 5983 |
| Clas3 B | ||||
| 15 | 383 | 917 | 1849 | |
| Total for the whole | ||||
| 45 | 1882 | 4784 | 7832 |
The conditions associated with residence in the class A are, from a sanitary point
of view, superior to those in the class B dwellings.
The births registered during the year, and the birth-rates in the dwellings as a whole, and the two classes into which they have been divided are shown below:—
| The whole of the Dwellings. | Class A. | Class B. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Bate per 1,000 Inhabitants. | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Inhabitants. | Number. | Bate per 1,000 Inhabitants. |
| 249 | 31.7 | 189 | 31.5 | 60 | 32.4 |
The birth-rate amongst the inhabitants of the dwellings in 1906 was much lower
than in 1905. It was also lower than that of the Borough. The decrease was due
to the marked reduction of the births in the Class A dwellings. The number of births