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Shoreditch 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE I.
BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
Vital Statistics of whole District during 1910 and previous Years.
| Year. | populationestimated to middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths IN-Public institutions in the District. | Deaths of Nonr sident registered in Pubic Institutions in the District. | Deaths of resident registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Net Deaths at all ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under one year of age | at all Ages. | |||||||||||
| Number | Rate1 | Number. | Rate per 1.000 Births regis | Number | Rate* | Number | Rate* | |||||
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| 1900 | 121335 | 4023 | 32.9 | 741 | 187 | 2689 | 22.2 | 790 | 472 | 350 | 2576 | 21.4 |
| 19 J1 | 118550 | 4120 | 34.3 | 812 | 201 | 2652 | 22.6 | 883 | 427 | 365 | 2596 | 22.1 |
| 1902 | 117948 | 3992 | 33.3 | 704 | 18) | 2383 | 20.2 | B36 | 387 | 432 | 2441 | 20.9 |
| 1903 | 117740 | 3932 | 33.3 | 676 | 176 | 2232 | 18.9 | 832 | 337 | 383 | 2280 | 19.6 |
| 1904 | 117360 | 3763 | 32.0 | 706 | 190 | 2315 | 19.6 | 811 | 366 | 434 | 2392 | 20.6 |
| 1905 | 116939 | 3894 | 33.3 | 652 | 165 | 2234 | 19.1 | 867 | 391 | 451 | 2296 | 19.8 |
| 1906 | 116506 | 3S02 | 32.6 | 651 | 168 | 2158 | 18.5 | 816 | 343 | 473 | 2289 | 19.8 |
| 1907 | 116073 | 3636 | 31.3 | 569 | 153 | 2195 | 18.9 | 912 | 350 | 516 | 2365 | 20.6 |
| 1908 | 115642 | 3678 | 32.2 | 510 | 138 | 2258 | 19.0 | 884 | 367 | 485 | 2006 | 17.5 |
| 1909 | 115285 | 3692 | 32.4 | 5'2 | 138 | 2S92 | 20.7 | 903 | 316 | 492 | 2189 | 19.2 |
| Averages for years 1900 to l909 | 117347 | 3853 | 32.7 | 653 | 169 | 2350 | 19.9 | 853 | 378 | 438 | 2343 | 20.1 |
| 1910 | 114935 | 3595 ‡ | 31.6§ | 528 | 147 | 1795 1 | 15.6 | 885 | 323 | 428 | 1913 | 16.8§ |
* Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 are calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
% Total registered for the Borough, excluding the births in the Holborn
house.
§ The population in the Holborn Workhouse is excluded in calculating these rates.
Note.—The deaths included in column 7 of this table are the whole of those
registered during the year as having actually occurred within the district. The
deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7, corrected by the subtraction
of the number in column 10 and the addition of the number in column 11. During
1910 twelve persons not resident in Shoreditch died within the district, and 25 residents
of Shoreditch died beyond the district, but not in public institutions, these have to
be added to the figures in columns 10 and 11 respectively in order to get the net
deaths for 1910. It should also be noted that the net deaths for previous years
have been similarly corrected for residents and non-residents who died elsewhere
than in institutions.
By the term " non-residents " is meant persons brought into the district on
account of sickness or infirmity, and dying in public institutions there ; and by the
term " residents " is meant persons who have been taken out of the district on
account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public institutions elsewhere.
The " public institutions " taken into account for the purposes of these Tables
are those into which persons are habitua'ly received on account of sickness or
infirmity, such as hospitals, workhouses and lunatic asylums. A list of the institutions
in respect of the deaths in which corrections have been made is given on page 9
of the Report.
Total popu'ation at all ages, 118,637
Area of District in acres Number of inhabited houses, 12,743
(exclusive of area 642.5 Average number of persons,
covered by water per house 9.3 Atcensus of 1901.