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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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GENERAL DATA
| Area of Borough | 662 acres | |||
| Average height above sea-level | 60 feet | |||
| Estimated number of houses (including separately-rated flats) | 12,120 | |||
| Number of families (1931 census) | 25,156 | |||
| Rateable value | £836,827 | |||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,138 | |||
| SHOREDITCH | LONDON | |||
| 1940 | Average 1930-1939 | 1940 | Average 1930-1939 | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 16.04 | 16.19 | 13.7 | 13.81 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births) | 24.49 | 31.20 | -† | 32.74 |
| Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living) | 23.09 | 13.42 | 17.8 | 11.99 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 38.39 | 20.31 | -† | 20.21 |
| Infantile mortality rate— (deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 69 | 69 | 50 | 61 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1.000 live births) | 2.34 | 2.36 | -† | 2.68 |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 387 | 1.79 | -† | -† |
| „ „ „ cancer | 2.31 | 1.60 | -† | 1.69 |
| „ „ „ diarrhœa and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 births | 11.70 | 15.30 | 5.8 | 11.62 |
| „ „ „ pulmonary tuberculosis | 1.37 | 0.83 | -† | 0.75 |
| Notifications of tuberculosis (per 1,000 population) ...... | 1.91 | 1.68 | -† | 1.62 |
| † Figures not available. | ||||
PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICAL INFORMATION
VITAL STATISTICS
Population, estimated at midsummer, 1940 57,090
Number of births registered 916 Birth rate (per 1,000 population) 16.04
,, „ still births registered 23 Still birth rate (per 1,000 births) 24.49
,, ,, infant deaths registered 59 Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 69
„ ,, deaths registered 1,318* Death rate (per 1,000 population) 23.09
Corrected death rate (comparability factor 1.02) 23.55
„ maternal deaths registered 2 Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 2.34
*Includes 299 due to" other violent causes."
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | Cases notified | Removed to hospital | Deaths registered | Infectious Diseases | Cases notified | Removed to hospital | Deaths regis tered |
| Scarlet fever | 43 | 43 | - | Measles | 267 | 225 | 2 |
| Diphtheria, membranous croup | 63 | 63 | — | Whooping cough | 25 | 21 | — |
| Enteric (including paratyphoid) | 14 | 14 | — | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 13 | 2 | — |
| Acute primary or influenzal pneumonia | 44 | 26 | 80 | Puerperal fever | 4 | 2 | — |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 12 | 8 | — | ||||
| Erysipelas | 31 | 24 | 1 | Cerebro spinal fever | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| Acute poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | — | Encephalitis lethargica | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Dysentery | 29 | 26 | 1 | ||||
| Tuberculosis—pulmonary | 93 | — | 78 | ||||
| „ other forms | 16 | - | 10 |