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Metropolitan Borough of Sboreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
TOWN HALL,
OLD STREET, E.C.,
January, 1904.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
SIR and GENTLEMEN,
This report relates to the public health, sanitary condition and vital statistics of
the Borough of Shoreditch for the year ending December 31st, 1903.
POPULATION.
The number of inhabitants in the Borough for the year under consideration is
estimated at 117,740, as compared with 117,948 for last year, distributed in the four
registration sub-districts as follows:—Shoreditch South, 15,800; Hoxton New Town,
29,600; Hoxton Old Town, 26,350; and Haggerston, 45,990. In the New Town
registration sub-district is situate the Holborn Union Workhouse, the inmates of
which, numbering at the 1901 census 1,375, are not regarded as persons belonging to
Shoreditch, and are for certain statistical purposes not included in estimating the
population in that sub-district. For these purposes the population of the New Town
registration sub-district becomes, therefore, 28,225, and the population for the whole
borough 116,365. The decrease in the population of the Borough, which has been
going on since 1861 is mainly attributable to the demolition of dwelling-houses to
make room for business premises. A number of such cases, which came under
observation during the past year, are referred to later in this report. The people displaced
were practically all of the artizan class.
Based upon the special census returns, supplied by the Registrar General under
section 9 of the Census (Great Britain) Act, 1900 to the London County Council, I have
prepared a map of Shoreditch, showing the variations in the densities of the populations