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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C. 1,
January, 1928.
To the MAYOR, ALDERMEN and COUNCILLORS
of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Owing to the most sad death on 14th December, 1927, of the Medical Officer of
Health, Dr. L. T. Fraser Bryett, the duty devolves upon me of submitting the following
report on the health and sanitary conditions of the Borough for the year ending
31st December, 1927.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the Borough as at 30th
June, 1927 is 105,700. Included are the inmates of the Holborn Institution,
numbering approximately 1,000, who are not regarded as belonging to Shoreditch.
Excluding these, 104,700 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 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).