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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LONDON AND SHOREDITCH BIRTH AND DEATH RATES
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1929.
| ANNUAL. RATE PER 1,000 PERSONS LIVING. | Infants under 1 vear. Death rate prr 1,000 Live Biiths. | PERCENTAGE TO TCH AL DEA 1 MS. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISTRICTS. | Estimated Population 1929. | BIRTHS. | DEATHS DURING THE YEARS: | DEATHS DURING 1929 FROM | Inquest Cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Uncertified Causes of Death. | |||||||||||||
| I | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | *Fever. | Diarrhoea Enteritis (under 2 year): | Tuberculous Disease. | Violence. | |||||||||||
| 1926 | 1927. | 1928. | 1929. | |||||||||||||||||
| London | 4,458,200 | 15.7 | 11.6 | 11.9 | 116 | 13.8 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.26 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 1.0 | 0.56 | 70 | 6.8 | ... | 0.0 |
| Shoreditch | ‡ 98,710 | 20.3 | 12.2 | 12.7 | 13.8 | 16.1 | 0.95 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.40 | 0.03 | 0.21 | 1.2 | 0.56 | 83 | 6.1 | 63.9 | ... |
| Moorfields | 3,940 | 18.2 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 103 | 18.5 | 0.76 | ... | ... | ... | 0.50 | ... | ... | 0.25 | 1.01 | 1.01 | 83 | 12.2 | 57.5 | ... |
| Church | 17,360 | 21.2 | 12.3 | 14.7 | 13 4 | 17.1 | 1.38 | ... | 0.29 | ... | 006 | 0.81 | ... | 0.29 | 1.27 | 0.63 | 103 | 5.7 | 64.6 | ... |
| Hoxton | 15,080 | 21.0 | 13.1 | 14.0 | 16.2 | 16.1 | 0.99 | ... | 013 | ... | 0.26 | 0.33 | ... | 0.19 | 1.19 | 0.46 | 92 | 6.2 | 60.1 | ... |
| Wenlock ‡ | 13,570 | 25.7 | 11.6 | 14.3 | 14.7 | 15.9 | 0.74 | ... | 0.29 | ... | ... | 0.29 | ... | 0.15 | 1.18 | 0.74 | 60 | 6.9 | 59.9 | ... |
| Whit more § | 17,020 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 134 | 17.1 | 1.11 | ... | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.47 | 0.06 | 0.29 | 1.29 | 0.47 | 113 | 5.5 | 68.0 | ... |
| Kingsland | 9,910 | 18.6 | 13.4 | 11.1 | 11.5 | 14.5 | 0.81 | ... | 0.30 | ... | 0.10 | 0.30 | ... | 0.10 | 0.81 | 0.40 | 65 | 5.5 | 61.8 | ... |
| Haggerston | 10,460 | 194 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 0.48 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.29 | 0.09 | 0.29 | 1.33 | 0.48 | 39 | 4.2 | 65.5 | ... |
| Acton | 11,370 | 16.3 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 145 | 16.3 | 0.88 | ... | ... | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.35 | 0.97 | 0.53 | 81 | 5.9 | 63.9 | ... |
* Fever includes typhus, typhoid and continued fevers.
† Diarrhæa in this table includes enteritis in children under two years.
‡ The inhabitants of the Holborn Institution, which is situate in Wenlock Ward, estimated at 1,000, and the deaths occurring in that institution are
excluded.
§ The Shoreditch Institution is situate in this Ward. In the cases of some of the deaths in outlying institutions, the Shoreditch Institution is the last known place of
residence. This Ward is therefore probably credited with some deaths belonging to other Wards.
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate per 1,000 within two places of decimals, O'OO is inserted ; where no deaths have occurred,
dots are placed in the space under the heading. The London population is adjusted to the middle of 1928.
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