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The total area of the Borough is stated to be 657.6 acres including 6.4 acres
of water in Hoxton New Town, 2.6 in Old Town and 6.1 in Haggerston. The total
number of persons in Shoreditch on the night of the census was 118,637, of whom
58,149 were males and 60,088 females. The density of the population per acre for
for the whole Borough was 180 in 1901, as compared with 189 in 1891. The
inhabited houses in the Borough numbered 12,743, as compared with 13,848 in 1891.
The number of families or separate occupiers in Shoreditch is given at 27,091, of
which 3,654 were in Shoreditch South, 6,951 in Hoxton New Town, 6,409 in Hoxton
Old Town and 10,017 in Haggerston.
In the Hoxton Parliamentary Division there were 6,122 inhabited houses and
62,429 persons, and in the Haggerston Division 6,525 and 55,277 respectively.

The number of persons in the public institutions within the Borough on the night
of the census, were as follows: Convent Hospital, 24; Hoxton House Asylum, 120;
Holborn Workhouse, 1,375; Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, 68; and Shoreditch
Workhouse and Infirmary, 1,254.
Of the 27,031 tenements in Shoreditch, 22,940, or 84.9 per cent., were of less
than five rooms. The average percentage of such tenements for the County of London
was 65.9.