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The percentages of the births registered during the several years, 1887-94, not
finally accounted for in Shoreditch, the Metropolis, and the rest of England and
Wales, are contained in the subjoined table.

The number of children born during 1894 who apparently escaped vaccination
shews a very great increase on the number for the preceding year. There is an
increase also observable in the figures for England and Wales and for the Metropolis.
The figures for 1895, 1896 and 1897 are not available, but there is very little doubt
that a large number of the children born in Shoreditch during these years have
escaped vaccination.
SCARLET FEVER (Scarlatina).
There were 628 cases notified, as compared with 697 in 1896, 592 in 1895, 487 in
1894, and 1,007 in 1893. The deaths numbered 31, as compared with 38 in 1896,
29 in 1895, 26 in 1894, and 38 in 1893. The scarlet fever death-rate for the whole
parish was 0.25 per 1000 inhabitants; the highest rate being 0.37 in Haggerston, and
the lowest, 0.07 per 1000 inhabitants in Hoxton Old Town. The scarlet fever attacks
in Shoreditch were at the rate of 5.2 per 1000 inhabitants, the attack-rate being
51 per 1000 in Shoreditch South, 4.4 in Hoxton New Town, 4.4 in Hoxton Old Town,
and 6.0 in Haggerston.
As compared with last year the fatality was somewhat lower, 4.9 per cent. of the
cases terminating fatally during 1897, as compared with 5.4 per cent. in 1896. Of
those attacked with the disorder, 235 were children under the age of five years;
of these 27 died, the mortality being 11.0 per cent., as compared with 12.0 per cent.
last year. The mortality amongst those attacked who were over five years of age
was 1.0 per cent. The whole of the fatal cases were of children who were under
fifteen years of age.
In the subjoined table is contained the distribution of the notifications and fatal
cases amongst males and females in the parish and its four sub-districts.