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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 1893
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1893
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TABLE III.—ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LONDON AND SHOREDITCH BIRTHS AND
DEATHS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1893.
| Districts. | Estimated population 1893. | Annual, Rate per 1000 persons living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births. | PERCENTAGE TO TOTAL DEATHS. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIRTHS. | DEATHS FROM | Inquest Cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Uncertified causes of Death. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Tubercular Diseases. | Violence. | |||||||
| London | 4,306,411 | 310 | 21.5 | 21.4 | 20.6 | 21.3 | 3.08 | 0.05 | 0.39 | 0.37 | 0.76 | 0.54 | 0.17 | 0.80 | 2.69 | 0.80 | 164 | 8.1 | 26.9 | 0.9 |
| Shoreditch | 122,420 | 35.5 | 25.4 | 24.8 | 23.09 | 25.7 | 4.72 | 0.02 | 1.04 | 0.31 | 1.21 | 0.58 | 0.12 | 1.38 | 3.13 | .83 | 186 | 8.6 | 26.1 | 0.00 |
| Shoreditch South | 19,890 | 26.6 | ... | 22.4 | 21.45 | 20.0 | 3.46 | — | 1.05 | 0.20 | 0.70 | 0.35 | 0.15 | 1.00 | 2.51 | 0.30 | ||||
| Hoxton New Town | 28,280 | 36.7 | ... | 24.1 | 22.35 | 26.2 | 5.23 | — | 1.37 | 0.36 | 1.27 | 0.72 | 0.10 | 1.29 | 3.11 | 1.02 | ||||
| Hoxton Old Town | 28,850 | 34.6 | ... | 26.1 | 22.77 | 24.9 | 4.50 | — | 0.40 | 0.24 | 0.97 | 0.69 | 0.17 | 1.59 | 3.11 | 0.86 | ||||
| Haggerston | 45,400 | *39.4 | ... | 25.2 | 24.02 | 28.3 | 5.08 | 0.06 | 0.93 | 0.35 | 1.55 | 0.50 | 0.19 | 1.46 | 3.43 | 0.92 | ||||
* Includes Births in the Shoreditch Infirmary.
Note.—Where the Deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate per 1000 within two places of
decimals, 0.00 is inserted; where no deaths have occurred it is expressed thus—.