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deaths during 1925 include those of 20 persons who were not certified under the
Tuberculosis Regulations in Shorcditch. The mortality was at the rate of 1.4 per
1,000 inhabitants, being highest in Kingsland and lowest in Action Ward, 1.87 and
1.14 per 1,000 respectively.
The deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs or consumption numbered 124, the
same as for 1924. The great majority of the deaths were amongst persons aged
between 15 and 65 years. The deaths amongst males numbered 78 as compared
with 46 amongst females. The death-rate was 1.1 per J ,000 population, being highest
in Kingsland and lowest in Hoxton Ward, 1.5 and 0.8 per 1,000 respectively.
The deaths from tuberculosis in the Metropolis numbered 4,932, the death-rate
being 1.0 per 1,000 population. The deaths attributed to tuberculosis of the lungs
numbered 4,181, giving a death-rate of 0.8 per 1,000 persons.
A summary of the notifications received under the regulations during the year is
contained in Table VIII., and the distribution of the cases according to age periods
and localities is shown in Table II. (Appendix). The cases of tuberculosis certified
numbered 303, being at the rate of 2.9 per 1,000 persons in the Borough as compared
with 2.4 in 1924, 2.4 in 1923, 2.7 in 1922, 2.5 in 1921, 3.0 in 1920 and 5.1 in 1919.
The cases certified were most numerous in proportion to the population in Kingsland
and least in Acton Ward, being at the rate of 4.3 per 1,000 in the former as compared
with 1.9 in the latter. The cases certified as pulmonary tuberculosis numbered 243,
and were at the rate of 2.2 per 1,000 as compared with 2.0 in 1924, 2.1 in 1923, 2.1
in 1922, 2.1 in 1921, 2.8 for 1920 and 4.0 for 1919. The notifications for pulmonary
tuberculosis were proportionately most numerous in Kingsland and least in Acton
Ward, 3.5 and 1.5 per 1,000 respectively.
At the close of the year the Tuberculosis Register contained the names of 1,709
persons of whom 928 were males.
The report of the Tuberculosis Officer which summarises the work carried out for
Shoreditch at the Tuberculosis Dispensary during the year under consideration is
appended (pp. 62 to 65).
The Tuberculosis Care Committee met on 17 occasions during the year and
dealt with 318 cases. Of these 126 were admitted to institutions and some 48
terminated fatally.
The removals to hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions are given in Table II.
(Appendix). Of the deaths from consumption belonging to Shoreditch approximately
65 per cent, occurred in institutions within and without the Borough, 31 per cent,
of them in St. Leonard's Hospital,