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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT
A
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C. 2,
January, 1925.
To the MAYOR, ALDERMEN and COUNCILLORS
of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following report for the year ending 31st
December, 1924, upon the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of
Shoreditch. As far as practicable this report has been compiled on lines similar to
those of previous reports, due allowance being made for the instructions of the
Minister of Health as laid down in the circular issued at the end of the year under
consideration.
POPULATION.
The estimated population in the middle of 1924 was 106,500. This figure, which
was furnished by the General Register Office, Somerset House, includes the population
in the Holborn Institution, numbering about 1,000 persons, who are not regarded as
Shoreditch people. Excluding these, 105,500 is the number of inhabitants taken
into account for the statistical purposes of this report. Further information upon
the subject of the population is contained in Tables I. and VI., and in those relating
to the administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (see Appendix). The
latter also refer to the principal industries of the Borough.
BIRTHS.
The births registered in the Borough numbered 2,336, of which 1,200 were of
males and 1,136 of females. The number, corrected by the inclusion of the births