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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 1894
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1894
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The following table shows the distribution of the oases and deaths, together with the attack-rate and death-rate per 1000 inhabitants, the case mortality, the number of schools, and the birth rate per 1000 of the population in each of the four sub-districts of the parish.
TABLE XIII.
| Population. | No. of Cases of Diphtheria. | Attack rate per 1000 inhabitants. | No. of De'ths | Death-rate per 1000 Inhabitants. | Case Mortality. | Birth rate. | No. of Sch'ls. | No. of Children attending Schools in the District.1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | |||||||||
| Shoreditch South | 19,890 | 28 | 1.4 | 7 | 0.3 | 25.0 | 26.3 | 4 | 1745 | 1699 |
| Hoxton New Town | 28,280 | 58 | 2.0 | 18 | 0.6 | 31.0 | 36.5 | 7 | 2992 | 2748 |
| Hoxton Old Town | 28,850 | 78 | 2.7 | 18 | 0.6 | 23.0 | 34.1 | 7 | 2859 | 3370 |
| Haggerston | 45,400 | 139 | 3.0 | 33 | 0.7 | 23.7 | 37.2 | 13 | 4926 | 4798 |
In the following table are set forth the numbers of cases notified, and the numbers of fatal cases occurring amongst males and females in the four sub-districts of the parish.
TABLE XIV.
| Sub-District. | DIPHTHERIA. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications. | Fatal. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Shoreditch South | 15 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Hoxton New Town | 23 | 35 | 58 | 7 | ||
| Hoxton Old Town | 39 | 39 | 78 | |||
| Haggerston | 59 | 80 | 139 | 13 | 33 | |
| Total for the whole Parish | 136 | 167 | 308 | 84 | 42 | 76 |
Females suffered to a greater extent than males in the proportion of 55 to 45, but
the figures shew that the case-mortality was practically the same in the two
sexes, being 25 per cent. amongst males and 25.1 per cent. amongst females.
Amongst persons above the age of 15 years, 59 cases were notified, of which 27
were males and 32 females, of the former 2 proved fatal, and of the latter 4.
*These numbers are obtained from returns made by the headmasters and headmistresses of
the different schools in March, 1894.