View report page

6
Prematurity and debility at birth were given as the cause of 144 deaths, 113 were
stated to be due to atrophy, debility, and marasmus, all children under 5 years of age,
and 106 were attributed to old age.
Cancer oaused 74 deaths, 31 of males and 43 of females. With tho exception of
6 they were all of persons aged between 35 and 75 years. The death-rate attributable
to cancer was 068 per 1000 inhabitants as compared with 0.56 for 1900. In
addition to the deaths given as due to cancer there were 21, 14 of males and 7 of
females, attributed to malignant disease. These have not been included in calculating
the cancer death-rate.
The deaths directly attributed to alcoholism numbered 13, but as stated in previous
reports this figure is far from indicating the actual number of deaths which have
resulted from the abuse of alcohol.

The alterations in the boundaries of the Borough under the London Government
Act, 1899, caused the transfer of the North Eastern Hospital for Children situate in
Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, to the Borough of Bethnal Green, and the Royal
Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in the City Road to Shoreditch.
Elsewhere than in public institutions 5 persons not belonging to Shoreditch died
within the Borough.
In the following table are set forth the various public institutions outside
Shoreditch, with the number of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein;—