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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C. 2,
January, 1924.
To the MAYOR, ALDERMEN and COUNCILLORS
of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough
of Shoreditch for the year ending 31st December, 1923.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate as at 30th June, 1923, is 106,200. This includes
the population in the Holborn Institution, numbering about a thousand persons,
who are not regarded as belonging to the Borough. Excluding this population,
105,200 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, contained in the appendix to this Report, give further information upon
the subject of the population, and also refer to the principal industries of the Borough.
BIRTHS.
The births registered in the Borough numbered 2,552, of which 1,278 were of
males and 1,274 of females. The number, corrected by the inclusion of the births