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From information supplied by the Medical Officer of Health of the London
County Council, it appears that 768 of the births during 1906 belonging to Shoreditch
were attended by midwives registered under the Midwives Act, 1902, and of
these, 50 were hospital confinements.
The birth-rate for the Borough was 33.6 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with
34.2 in 1905. The birth-rates for the eight wards of the Borough are contained in
Table VII. (Appendix). The births for the whole of England and Wales during 1906
were at the rate of 27.0 per 1,000 population; for 76 great towns they averaged
27.9, and for 142 smaller towns 26.5 per 1,000 population. The birth-rate of the
metropolis in 1906 was 26.5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
MARRIAGES.
The marriages in Shoreditch during 1906 numbered 1,074 as compared! with 1,068
in 1905, 1,066 in 1904, 1,146 in 1903, 1,156 in 1902, 1,073 in 1901, and 1,157 in
1900. The number of persons married was at the rate of 18.6 per 1,000, as compared
with 17.1 for the whole of London.
DEATHS.
The deaths numbered 2,289, as compared with 2,296 in 1905 and 2,392 in 1904.

The deaths of males were 45 in excess of the number of females who died. The
death-rate for 1906 was the same as for 1905, namely, 19.8* per 1,000 inhabitants,
as compared with 20.6 in 1904, and 19.6 in 1903, and was markedly below the average
for the previous ten years. The death-rate of the metropolis for 1906 was 15.1,
of England and Wales 15.4, and of 76 great towns 16.0 per 1,000 inhabitants.
*Corrected for age and sex distribution, the death-rate was 20.7 per 1,000.