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The chief decrease in the population is taking place in the Shoreditch South
registration sub-district; the decrease is very slight in Shoreditch North-East, whilst
in the North-West registration sub-district there is an, increase. The net result,
however, is an estimated decrease of between four and five hundred persons as compared
with the population for the previous year.

In the above table the areas of the water-ways of the Regent's Canal and of
the site occupied by the Holborln Union Workhouse have not been taken into
account.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough was 3,636, of which 1,850 were
of males and 1,786 of females. The number corrected by the inclusion of the
births occurring in public institutions outside Shoreditch, the parents being residents
of the Borough, and the exclusion of those occurring in public institutions within
the Borough, the parents not being residents of Shoreditch, was 3,720, of which
1,877 were of males, and 1,843 of females.