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Shoreditch 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Scarlet fever 18
Scarlet fever at Catherine Street School 35
Scarlet fever, return cases of 12
Schools, closure for infectious disease 35
Shelter 36
Sickness amongst the poor 8
Slaughterhouses 47
Smallpox 17
Smoke nuisance 47
Street markets and food 55
Tuberculosis 32
Vaccination returns 17
Verminous houses 47
Violence, mortality from 7
Water supply 37
Whooping cough 31
Workshops, summary of principal trades carried on 49
Workshops on register 49
Zymotic diseases, deaths from 10
Zymotic death rate 10
APPENDIX.
Statistical Tables : —
For whole district during 1905 and previous years (Table I.) 62
For separate localities in 1905 (Table II.) 63
Cases of infectious disease notified during 1905 (Table III.) 64
Causes of, and ages at, death during year 1905 (Tables IV. and VI.) 65,67
Infantile mortality during 1905 (Table V.) 66
Comparison of London and Shoreditch birth and death rates in 1905
(Table VII.) 73
Cases treated by the District Medical Officer in 1905 (Table VIII.) 74
Summary of proceedings under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Table
IX.) 75
Factory and Workshop Act—Summary of work (Tables I., II. and III.) 76,77
Sewer ventilation and intercepting traps—Report 84
Bye-laws—Houses let in lodgings 84