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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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TABLE XXIII.-ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LONDON AND ? ? ?
DEATHS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1884.
| [Districts. | Annual Rate per 1000 persons living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births. | PERCENTAGE TO TOTAL DEATHS. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated population 1894. | births | total deaths during | deaths from | Inquest Cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Uncertified Causes of Death. | ||||||||||||||
| Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Tubercular Diseases. | Violence. | |||||||||||
| 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | |||||||||||||||||
| London | 21.4 | 20.6 | 21.3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||
| Shoreditch | 122,420 | 34.5 | 24.8 | 23.09 | 25.7 | 20.14 | 2.78 | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.21 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.10 | 0.59 | 2.95 | 0.84 | 166.3 | 11.3 | 46.1 | 0.1 |
| Shoreditch South | 19,890 | 26.3 | 22.4 | 21.45 | 20.0 | 15.9 | 1.75 | 0.05 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.35 | 0.55 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 2.81 | 0.60 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Hoxton New Town | 28,280 | 36.5 | 24.1 | 22.35 | 26.2 | 20.2 | 2.89 | 0.03 | 0.38 | 0.14 | 0.63 | 0.91 | 0.07 | 0.70 | 3.21 | 1.06 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Hoxton Old Town | 28,850 | 34.1 | 26.1 | 22.77 | 24.9 | 19.1 | 2.63 | — | 0.45 | 0.06 | 0.62 | 0.58 | 0.17 | 0.72 | 2.49 | 0.69 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Haggerston | 45,400 | *37.2 | 25.2 | 24.02 | 28.3 | 22.5 | 3.32 | — | 0.79 | 0.35 | 0.72 | 0.70 | 0.04 | 0.66 | 3.14 | 0.90 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
* 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:—
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