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Shoreditch 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE III.
Shewing the absolute and relative mortality from six Zymotic Diseases in Shoreditch during the Quarter ending 27th December, 1856.
| SMALL POX. | MEASLES. | SCARLATINA. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortality in | Proportion to | Mortality in | Proportion to | Mortality in | Proportion to | |||||||||
| Sh. | Lond. | EastD. | Lond. | EastD. | Sh. | Lond. | EastD | Lond. | EastD. | Sh. | Lond. | East D. | Lond. | EastD. |
| 1 | 74 | 6 | .014 | .17 | 14 | 372 | 50 | 04 | .28 | 31 | 556 | 141 | .06 | .23 |
| HOOPING-COUGH. | DIAKRHCEA. | TYPHUS. | ||||||||||||
| Mortality in | Proportion to | Mortality in | Proportion to | Mortality in | Proportion to | |||||||||
| Sh. | Lond. | EastD. | Lond. | EastD. | Sh. | Lond. | EastD. | Lond. | EastD. | Sh. | Lond. | EastD. | Lond. | EastD. |
| 34 | 466 | 118 | .07 | .33 | 7 | 316 | 65 | .02 | .10 | 50 | 611 | 194 | .08 | .25 |
| ALL SIX EPIDEMICS. | ||||||||||||||
| Mortality in | Proportion to | |||||||||||||
| Sh. | Lond. | EastD. | Lond. | EastD. | ||||||||||
| 137 | 2395 | 574 | .06 | .24 | ||||||||||
The proportionate population of Shoreditch, is for London "05 ; for East
Districts .22.
In Table II, the mortality from small-pox, measles, scarlatina, hooping cough,
diarrhoea, and fever, is given separately for each registration Sub-district. I have not
inserted the population of each Sub-district. We possess no ennumeration since
1851; and since this period the relative distribution of the aggregate population of the
district has much changed: thus, between 1841 and 1851, the rate of increase of
Shoreditch was 2.790 per cent. annually. If we assume that the like rate has been
maintained to the present time, we must estimate the actual entire population at not
less than 125,000; whilst, at the census of 1851, it was 109,257 only, It is certain
that this immense increase of 15,000 persons has taken place almost exclusively in the
Hoxton and Haggerstone Sub-districts; but I am unable to apportion this increase
accurately between the several sub-districts; and to record the figures of 1851 would
only suggest erroneous inferences. In reading this Table it will of course be borne in
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