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Shoreditch 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The deaths numbered 6, being at the rate of 0.06 per 1,000 population. There
were no deaths in Church, Wenlock, Haggerston, and Acton Wards. The death-rate
was highest in Moorfields Ward, where it was 0.22 per 1,000 population.
The case-mortality was at the rate of 1.5 per cent. of the cases certified, being
a shade above the average for the previous 10 years. Amongst children under
five years there were 165 cases, 4 of which were fatal, the case-mortality being
2.4 allowing for errors in diagnosis. Amongst persons over five years there were 226
cases with 2 deaths, and a case-mortality of 0.9 per cent. allowing for errors in
diagnosis.
The scarlet fever cases certified in the Metropolis numbered 10,121, being at the
rate of 2.2 per 1,000 population. The deaths numbered 112, which give a rate of
0.02 per 1,000 population as estimated to the middle of the year 1922.
DIPHTHERIA (INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP).
The cases certified numbered 365, of which 16, or 4.4 per cent., were subsequently
not regarded as being diphtheria.
The numbers of cases and the deaths amongst males and females in the Borough and its eight Wards are given in the subjoined table:—
| Ward. | DIPHTHERIA (including Membranous Croup). | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases Certified. | Fatal Cases. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Moorfields | 5 | 8 | 13 | 1 | ... | 1 |
| Church | 25 | 34 | 59 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Hoxton | 25 | 32 | 57 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wenlock | 22 | 22 | 44 | ... | 2 | 2 |
| Whitmore | 30 | 45 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kingsland | 4 | 23 | 27 | ... | 1 | ] |
| Haggerston | 26 | 25 | 51 | ... | 1 | 1 |
| Acton | 21 | 18 | 39 | ... | 1 | 1 |
| Totals for Borough | 158 | 207 | 365 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
The cases are grouped according to ages in Table II (Appendix). Of the cases
certified 362, or 99 0 per cent., were removed to hospital. The cases were certified
at the rate of 3.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, the rate being the highest in Haggerston
Ward and lowest in Kingsland, 4.6 and 2.5 per 1,000 respectively.
The deaths numbered 13, the rate being 0.12 per 1,000 population. The rate
was highest in Moorfields Ward, where it amounted to 0.22 per 1,000. It was lowest
in Acton, where it was 0.08 per 1,000. Of the cases certified 3.5 per cent. terminated
fatally. Of the deaths 12 were of children under five years of age, the mortality
being at the rate of 6.7 per cent. of the cases certified amongst children at that