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In estimating the above figures the population and the area of the Holborn
Union Workhouse premises have not been taken into account, nor has the area
covered by water in the Borough been included.
The following figures obtained at the 1911 Census may be recorded: there
were 11,535 inhabited houses in the Borough, including 9,470 ordinary dwellinghouses,
110 blocks of flats, 1,528 shops, 246 hotels, inns and public-houses, 96 offices,
warehouses, workshops and factories, 38 institutions and 47 others; of the population
87,082 were in ordinary dwelling-houses, 9,344 in blocks of flats occupying
2,031 flats, 8,941 were in shops, 1,477 in hotels, inns and public-houses, 560 in
offices, warehouses, workshops and factories, 3,701 in institutions, and 274 in others.
The uninhabited houses numbered 822, of which 641 were ordinary dwelling-houses,
172 shops, 1 public house, 6 offices and other business premises. Of buildings not
used as dwellings there were 27 places of worship, 15 Government and municipal
buildings, 632 shops, 31 offices, 1,447 warehouses, workshops and factories, and
4 theatres and other places of amusement.
BIRTHS.
The births registered in the Borough numbered 3,375, of which 1,711 were of
males and 1,664 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 3,529, of which 1,793
were of males and 1,736 of females.

Outside the Borough 228 births were registered—115 of males and 113 of females
—the parents being residents of Shoreditch. In the Shoreditch Infirmary 141 births
were registered, of which 69 were of males and 72 of females. In four of these (2 male
and 2 female) the parents did not belong to Shoreditch.
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