London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
This page requires JavaScript
In the subjoined table are given the deaths and death-rates from certain causes for the dwellings and the corresponding rates for the whole Borough :—
| Cause of Death. | The whole of the Dwellings. | Class A. | Class B. | The Borough. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of deaths. | Rate per 1,000 inhabitants. | Number of deaths. | Rate per 1,000 inhabitants. | Number Rate per of 1,000 deaths, inhabitants. | Rate per 1,000 inhabitants. | ||
| All causes | 113 | 13.3 | 87 | 13.2 | 26 | 13.7 | 20.2 |
| Principal Zymotic diseases. | 14 | 1.6 | 10 | 1.5 | 4 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| All forms of Tuberculosis | 12 | 1.4 | 8 | 1.2 | 4 | 2.1 | 3.2 |
| Phthisis | 10 | 1.1 | 8 | 1.2 | 2 | 1.0 | 2.4 |
| Bronchitis | 15 | 1.7 | 14 | 2.1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Pneumonia | 9 | 1.0 | 5 | 0.7 | 4 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
The deaths of residents of the dwellings in public institutions numbered 48,
being 32 for the Class A and 16 for the Class B dwellings. The percentage of the
total deaths of residents of the dwellings dying in public institutions was 42.4,
being 37.9 for Class A and 61.5 for Class B. The percentages for the Borough and
for the wards are contained in Table VI. (Appendix).
The cases of notifiable infectious disease numbered 89, of which 65 were in
the Class A dwellings and 24 in the Class B. The attack.rates per 1,000 population
were 10.4 for the whole of the dwellings, 9.8 for Class A, and 12.6 for Class B, as
compared with 10.2 for the whole Borough. The cases included 1 of puerperal
fever, 46 of scarlet fever, 28 of diphtheria, 12 of erysipelas, 1 of enteric fever and
1 of cerebro-spinal fever.
The number of cases and the attack.rates per 1,000 inhabitants are set out below :—
| — | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Enteric Fever. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Rate. | Cases. | Rate. | Cases. | Rate. | Cases. | Rate. | Cases. | Rate. | Cases. | Rate. | |
| Class A | 37 | 5.6 | 17 | 2.5 | — | — | 9 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Class B | 9 | 4.7 | 11 | 6.1 | 1 | 0.5 | 3 | 1.5 | — | — | — | — |
| The whole of the dwellings | 46 | 54 | 28 | 3.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 12 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
For the Borough as a whole the attack.rates for the above diseases were as
follows :—scarlet fever, 5.3 ; diphtheria, 2.5; enteric fever, 0.02; erysipelas, 1.7;
cerebro-spinal fever 0.3 and puerperal fever, 0.08 per 1,000 inhabitants.