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Shoreditch 1896

Annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1896

Published
1897
Author
Bryeet, Lewis T. Fraser.
Pages
70
Tables
44

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44 tables in this report

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    TABLE I.
    Ward.Enumerated Population, 1896.Enumerated Population, 1891.
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    TABLE II.
    Sub-District.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE III.
    Year.Number of Marriages.Rate per 1,000 Population.
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    TABLE IV.
    Registration District.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE V.
    Year.Shoreditch.London.Year.Shoreditch.London.
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    TABLE VI.
    Institution.Residents.Non-residents.Total.
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    TABLE VII.
    Asylums.No. of Deaths.General Hospitals-continued.No. of Deaths.
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    TABLE VIII.
    Year1890.1891.18921893.1894.1895.
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    TABLE IX.
    Disease.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Total.Deaths.
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    TABLE X.
    Year.Metropolis.Rest of England.Shoreditch.
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    TABLE XI.
    Sub-District.SCARLET FEVER.
    Notifications.Fatal Cases.
    Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
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    TABLE XII.
    DIPHTHERIA.
    Notifications.Fatal Cases.
    Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
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    TABLE XIII.
    Year.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896
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    TABLE XIV.
    Year.189018911892189318941895
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    TABLE XV.
    Sub-District.TYPHOID FEVER.
    Notifications.Fatal Cases.
    Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
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    TABLE XVI.
    Sub-District.ERYSIPELAS.
    Notifications.Fatal Cases.
    Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
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    TABLE XVII.
    Year.Attack rate per 1000 births.Death-rate per 1000 births.
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    TABLE XVIII.
    Year.Deaths from Measles.Total deaths from all causes.
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    TABLE XIX.
    1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.
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    TABLE XX.
    No. of Case.Date of Admittance.Length of Stay.Number and Description of Persons.Address.Disease.
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    TABLE XXI.
    Year.No. of Bodies.Year.No. of Bodies.
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    TABLE XXII.
    Chief Inspt'r.Insp. Lear.Insp. QuelchInsp. Firth.Insp. Brown.Total.
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    TABLE XXIII.
    Premises.Magistrate's Decision.
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    TABLE XXIV.
    Year.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.
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    DEATHS ' REGISTERED FROM ALL CAUSES DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 st , 1896. DEATHS REGISTERED IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT FROM ALL CAUSES.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total Deaths under Five.Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
    Under 11 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 60.60 to 70.70 to 85.85 and upwards.
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    I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
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    DEATHS REGISTERED FROM ALL CAUSES DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 st , 1896. DEATHS REGISTERED IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT FROM ALL CAUSES.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total Deaths under Five.Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
    Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 60.60 to 70.70 to 85.85 and upwards.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    DEATHS REGISTERED FROM ALL CAUSES DURING THE YEAR ENDING DEATHS REGISTERED IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT DECEMBER, 1896. FROM ALL CAUSES.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total Deaths under Five.Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
    Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 60.60 to 70.70 to 85.85 and upwards.
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    TABLE XXVI. SUMMARY OF THE DEATHS IN THE PARISH OF SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH, AND IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT, FOR THE YEAR 1896.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.DEATHS IN EACH SUB-DISTRICT.
    Shoreditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggerston.Total.
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    TABLE XXVII.—ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LONDON AND SHOREDITCH BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 ST DECEMBER, 1896.
    Districts.Estimated population 1896.Annual Rate per 1000 persons living.Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births.Percentage To Total Deaths.
    BirthsTotal Deaths DuringDeaths FromInquest Cases.Deaths in Public Institutions.Uncertified Causes of Death.
    Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping Cough.* Fever.Diarrhœa.Tubercular Disease*.Violence.
    1893.1894.1895.1896.
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    TABLE XXVIII. ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish during the Year ending December 31st, 1896.
    Diseases.Diseases.
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    (A.) TABLE OF DEATHS during the 52 Weeks ending December, 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Saint Leonard, Shore ditch, classified according to D iseases , A ges, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.) (a)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, Distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
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    At all ages. (b)Under 1 year. (c)1 and under 5 (d)5 and under 15 (e)15 and under 25 (f)25 and under 65 (g)65 and upwards. (h)
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All other DiseasesTotal.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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    (B.) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, and of NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year ending 31st December, 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Age under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1896.123451 61 71 8910ii1 12l31567*910a12
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
  • Page 59
    SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875. The Report of the Analyst appointed under the above Act for this County, of the number of Articles of Food, Drink, and Drugs, which have been received and Analysed by such Analyst, specifying the nature and kind of Foreign Ingredients detected in such Articles, &c., during the Quarter ending the 31st day of March, 1896.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Analyst's Report for the Quarter ending the 31st day of March, 1896—continued.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredient detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Artile.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Analyst's Report for the Quarter ending the 31st day of March, 1896 — continued.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any).ObservationsFee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    The Report of the Analyst appointed under the above Act for this County, of the number of Articles of Food, Drink, and Drugs which have been received and Analysed by such Analyst, specifying the nature and kind of Foreign Ingredients detected in such Articles, &c., during the Quarter ending the 30th day of June, 1895.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it. was precured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients. detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Analyst's Report for the Quarter ending the 30t h day of June , 1896— continued.
    Date of eceipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    The Report of the Analyst appointed under the above Act for this County, of the number of Articles of Food, Drink, and Drugs which have been received and analysed by such Analyst, specifying the nature and kind of Foreign Ingredients detected in such Articles, &c„ during the Quarter ending the 30th day of September, 1896.
    Date of receipt by Analyst, of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any,).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    The Report of the Analyst appointed under the above Act for this County, of the number of Articles of Food, Drink, and Drugs, which have been received and analysed by such Analyst, specifying the nature and kind of Foreign Ingredients detected in such Articles, &c., during the Quarter ending the 31st day of December, 1896.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the [nspector in lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs Imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Analyst's Report for the Quarter ending the 31st day of December, 1896— continued.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector in lieu of the name of the Person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign ingredients detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for analysing such Article.
    1896.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Analyst's Report for the Quarter ending the 31st day of December, 1896— continued.
    Date of receipt by Analyst of the Article to be Analysed.Name of Person from whom the Article was received.Number marked on the parcel containing the Article by which it is to be identified by the Inspector iu lieu of the name of the person from whom it was procured.Article received.Fines and Costs imposed.Result of Analysis specifying the nature and kind of foreign iugredients detected in such article (if any).Observations.Fee payable for Analysing such Article.
    1896.£a.d.£s.d .