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Shoreditch 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C.
January, 1913.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir and Gentlemen,
This report refers to the public health, sanitary condition and the vital statistics
of the Borough of Shoreditch for the year ending December 31st, 1912.
POPULATION.
In my Annual Report for 1911 are contained provisional figures relating to the
number of persons returned as living in Shoreditch at midnight on Sunday, April
2nd, 1911, which were obtained from the Preliminary Report and Abstract of the
Twelfth Census, dated June 10th, 1911. In the Report of the Census, published
during the year 1912, the population of the Borough is given as being 111,390,
consisting of 54,842 males and 56,548 females. The number of separate families or
occupiers was 24,801, as compared with 27,031 at the Census of 1901.

Table: The figures for the Wards are contained in the subjoined table:—

The figures for the Wards are contained in the subjoined table:—

Ward.Families or Separate Occupiers.Population 1911.Population 1901.
Males.Females.Persons.
Moorfields1,1512,4692,5214,9906,431
Church4,2509,5629,68219,24420,823
Hoxton3,9308,1148,28216,39619,108
Wenlock3,6878,5478,78517,33217,302
Whitmore3,9369,2889,52018,80818,825
Kingsland2,5615,2935,59010,88311,663
Haggerston2,3865,5825,79511,37712,034
Acton2,9005,9876,37312,36012,451