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The deaths of males were 142 in excess of those of females.
The death rate for the year was 163, and was slightly below the average for
the previous ten years. The causes of death, and the death rates for the Borough
and its eight Wards, with other particulars as to the mortality amongst the
inhabitants of Shoreditch during the year, are given in Tables I., III., IV., V. and
VI. (Appendix).
The death rate was markedly above the mean for the year during the month
of January, the rates for the first four weeks being 31.8, 52, 37 and 30 5 per 1,000
inhabitants respectively. These high rates were due to the prevalence of influenza.
During February, March, April and May the rate averaged a little over 19 per 1,000.
For the remainder of the year the rate averaged well below 15 per 1,000 population.
The highest point in the death rate during the year was touched in the second week
of January, when 103 deaths were registered with one or two exceptions, the largest
number in any one week for over 30 years. The lowest of the weekly death rates
was 6 per 1,000, which was recorded for the first week of September.
There were 301 deaths amongst infants under one year. Of these, 166 were of
males and 135 females. They amounted to 17.5 per cent. of the total number of
deaths from all causes. The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the
rate of 102 per 1,000 births registered during the year, as compared with 114 in 1921
and 91 in 1920. Amongst males, the infantile mortality was 112 as compared with
93 amongst females.
The chief causes of death amongst infants under one year during 1922 were
pneumonia, prematurity, atrophy, debility and marasmus, diarrhoea and enteritis,
bronchitis and measles, in the order given.
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