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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C. 2.
January, 1923.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough
of Shoreditch.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my report on the health and sanitary condition
of the Borough for the year ending 31st December, 1922.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate as at 30th June, 1922, is 105,800, which includes
the population in the Holborn Institution, numbering about 1,000 persons, who are
not regarded as belonging to the Borough. Excluding this population, 104,800 is the
number taken into account for the statistical purposes of this report. Tables I. and
VI., and those relating to the administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901
(Appendix, pp. 41, 54, and 56 to 59), contain further information as regards the
population and principal industries of the Borough.