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The estimated population of the parish for the year 1897 is 122,058, distributed
in the four registration districts as follows

The population of the New Town registration district includes the inhabitants
of the Holborn Union Workhouse, estimated at 1,350. These are excluded for
statistical purposes, as they do not belong to this parish. The corrected number of
inhabitants for this district is, therefore, 28,280, and the corrected population for
the whole parish is 120,708.
BIRTHS.
During the year 4,325 births were registered; 2,198 of males, and 2,127 of
females, the males being 71 in excess of the females. In the Shoreditch Infirmary
there were 77 births—45 of males, and 32 of females. In the Holborn Union
Workhouse 92 births took place; of these 52 were males, and 40 females, 35 being
legitimate, and 57 illegitimate. The births were distributed in the parish
as follows:—

The births occurring in the Holborn Union Workhouse were of children whose
parents did not belong to Shoreditch; deducting these, the birth.rate was 35.0 per
1,000 inhabitants. The London birth.rate for the year 1897 was 29.9. In the
subjoined table is shewn a comparison of the birth.rates of London and Shoreditch
during the years 1891—96 :—