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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C. 2,
January, 1927.
To the MAYOR, ALDERMEN and COUNCILLORS
of the Metropolitan Borough of Sho.reditch.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following report on the health and sanitary
condition of the Borough for the year ending December 31st, 1926 : —
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the Borough as at June 30th,
1926, is 107,400, an increase of 100 on the figure for 1925. Included are the inmates
of the Holborn Institution, numbering approximately 1,000, who are not regarded
as belonging to Shoreditch. Excluding these, 106,400 is the estimated figure taken
into account for the statistical purposes of this report. Further information upon
the subject of the population, area, number of inhabited houses, number of families,
rateable value and the chief occupations of the inhabitants are contained in Tables I
and VI and in those relating to the administration of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901 (Appendix).