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Shoreditch 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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pleteness also renders it impracticable to apportion the cases of sickness amongst the
six registration sub-districts, for the purpose of comparison, &c., with the mortality
returns. The Medical Districts and the Registration Sub-districts do not correspond.
It will involve considerable labour to assign each case of sickness attended by the
Medical Officers to its proper Registration Sub-district; but since this distribution is
the most convenient for illustrating the comparative healthiness of different parts of the
Parish, I shall henceforward endeavour to accomplish it, at least as far as Epidemics
are concerned.
TABLE II.
Shewing the Mortality from six Epidemic diseases in each of the six Registration Sub-districts, during the 13 weeks ending 28th June, 1856.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICT. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus. | Total of Epidemics. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Holywell | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ... | 8 | 22 |
| 2. St. Leonard's | ... | 2 | 4 | 8 | ... | 3 | 17 |
| 3. Hoxton New Town, | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 24 | 46 |
| 4. Hoxton Old Town | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 | |
| 5. Haggerstone West, | ... | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 40 |
| 6. Haggerstone East | ... | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| Total | 6 | 16 | 28 | 39 | 6 | 63 | 158 |
Not being supplied with the Mortality Returns of each Registration Sub-district,
I have not the means of exhibiting side by side with the mortality from Epidemics, the
gross mortality of each Sub-district; we can only compare the Epidemic mortality with
the mortality of the whole Parish.