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Shoreditch 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C.
January, 1912.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir and Gentlemen,
This report refers to the public health, sanitary condition and the vital statistics
of the Borough of Shoreditch, for the year ending December 31st, 1911.
POPULATION.
The twelfth census was taken on April 3rd of the year under consideration.
The figures here given relate to the number of persons returned as living at midnight
on Sunday, April 2nd. They are provisional, being subject to correction, and
have been obtained from the preliminary report and abstract addressed to the
President of the Local Government Board, and dated June 10th, 1911.
The number of persons living in Shoreditch on the night of April 2nd, was
111,463 as compared with an estimate of 114,627 made prior to the Census.

Table: There has been a marked decrease in the number of people resident in the Borough as the subjoined figures show:—

There has been a marked decrease in the number of people resident in the Borough as the subjoined figures show:—

Population.Decrease.
1891.1901.1911.Between 1891 and 1901.Between 1901 and 1911.
124,533118,637111,4634.7 per cent.6 per cent.