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The deaths of males were 122 in excess of those of females. The death-rate
for the year was 18.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with 18.3 in 1912, 20.2 in
1911, 16.8 in 1910, 19 2 in 1909, 17.5 in 1908, 20.6 in 1907, 19.8 in 1906, 19.8 in
1905, 20.6 in 1904, and 19.6 in 1903. The death-rate for 1913 was therefore again
below the average for the previous ten years.
The London death-rate during 1913 was 14.2 per 1,000 population, for England
and Wales it was 13.4, for 96 great towns including London 14.7, and for 145
smaller towns it was 13.0 per 1,000 population.
In Tables I., III., IV., V. and VI. (Appendix) are given the causes of death,
and the death-rates for the whole Borough and for its eight Wards, together with
other particulars as to the mortality amongst the inhabitants of Shoreditch during
the year. Tables I., III. and IV. are forms required by the Local Government
Board. The death-rate was lowest in Moorfields and highest in Hoxton Ward.
The death-rate for the Borough was above the mean rate for the year during the
first eleven weeks ; it fell about the middle of March and was below the mean
until about the middle of August when the rate began to rise, gradually mounting
until a maximum was attained during the first fortnight of October after which it
fell again and for the remainder of the year it averaged somewhat below the mean
rate. The highest rate recorded was that for the first week of February when it
was 33.3, the lowest was for the first week of August, when it was only 8'5 per
1,000 population. The elevation during the early part of the year was the result
of the mortality due to measles, bronchitis and pneumonia ; the rise in August
was caused by the prevalence of summer diarrhoea.
The deaths of infants under the age of one year numbered 530, 312 being of
males and 218 of females, the deaths amounting to 26.3 per cent, of the total
number of deaths at all ages as compared with 22.3 for 1912, 26.8 for 1911, 27.6 in
1910, 23 in 1909, and 25.4 in 1908. The number of infants under one year dying
during 1913 was at the rate of 157 per 1,000 births belonging to Shoreditch
registered during the year. Amongst males the infantile mortality was 179 whilst
amongst females it was 132 per 1,000 births. The chief causes of death amongst
infants under the age of one year were atrophy, debility and marasmus,
prematurity, diarrhoea and enteritis, pneumonia, suffocation in bed, whooping
cough, measles and tuberculosis.
Corrected for age and sex distribution the death-rate was 19.0 per 1,000 population.