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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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8.
I. - STATISTICS AMD GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area - 662 acres. Population, Census 1931 - 97,038; RegistrarGeneral's
estimate, mid-1950 - 44,800. Number of structurally separate
dwellings, 1931 Census - 14,115. Number of houses (end of 1950) according
to rate books - 10,920. Rateable value - £612,499. Sum represented by
penny rate - £2,380.
A great variety of industries is carried on in the Borough's 1,245
factories. Furniture-making is one of the most common of these, and one
which is by tradition firmly established in the Borough. The number of
home workers notified under the Factories Act who are resident in the
Borough is approximately 400.
| Male | Female | Total | Birth Rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Still births 13. Rate per 1,000 total births 16.17
General death rate (crude rate) 12.38
Percentage of deaths occurring in public institutions 64.5
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of,
childbirth -
From sepsis Nil. From other causes Nil
Death rate of infants under one year of age, per 1,000
live births -
Legitimate 31.33. Illegitimate 17.54, Total 30.04
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
" " Whooping cough (all ages)Nil
" " Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) Nil
pulmonary tuberculosis 17
" " all forms of tuberculosis 20
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis 0.38
" n " all forms of tuberculosis 0.45