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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

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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)
Sub-Districts—
(1) Shoreditch South20,09817,667501Under 5..22411..1........469..1422................36
5 upwards..7940....17........36172..5223....7..........82
(2) Hoxton New Town29,31328,3251,020Under 5..6130....2........9102..4118....2..........61
5 upwards..8048....142......58202..6823....8..........99
(3) Hoxton Old Town28,35427,C45954Under 5..58183..2........990..4613....1..........60
5 upwards..9439....182......66220..6720....111........99
(4) Haggerston46,24445,9211,727Under 5..100591..5........8173..6040....2..........102
5 upwards..20275....542......82419114439....371..1....223
Shoreditch Infirmary and Workhouse..1,18273Under 5................................................
5 upwards....................1212........................
Holborn Infirmary..1,25089Under 5....1................1........................
5 upwards....................1111........................
Hoxton House..268..Under 5................................................
5 upwards..........1..........1........................
North-Eastern Hospital..60..Under 5................................................
5 upwards..1..................1........................
Convent Hospital..40..Under 5................................................
5 upwards................................................
TotalUnder 5..2411495..10........30435..16193....5..........259
5 upwards1456202....1046..4..2651,0381331105....632..1....503

Note —The Shoreditch Infirmary and the North-Eastern Hospital (Children) are in the Haggerston Sub-District, the Holborn Infirmary is in the New Town Sub-District, and Hoxton House (Asylum) and
the Convent Hospital are in Shoreditch South.