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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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I.—STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION.
STATISTICS.
Area: 662 acres. Population—Census .1931, 97,038; RegistrarGeneral's
estimate mid-1933—93,550. Number of structurally separate dwellings
1931 Census-—14,115. Number of bouses (end of 1933) according to
Rate Books, 14,238. Number of families and separate occupiers, 1931
Census—25,156. Rateable value, £838,510. Sum represented by penny
rate, £3,230. The length of public streets in the Borough is 43 miles.
Briefly, Shoreditch is a densely populated (average 141 to the acre) area
containing approximately 14,000 structurally separate dwellings and 3,000
business premises.
A great variety of industries are carried on in these business premises.
Furniture making is one of the most common of these, and one which is by
tradition firmly established in the Borough. The number of home workers
cannot be stated with accuracy, as there is necessarily some overlapping in
lists received from employers—500 may be given as a round number. Particulars
regarding home work will be found in Section IV of this report, page
67.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1933.
| Total. | M. | F. | Birth Rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Legitimate | 1,443 | 707 | 736 | 160 |
| Illegitimate | 51 | 32 | 19 | ||
| 1,494 | 739 | 755 | |||
Still births Rate per 1,000 total births 35.5
General death rate 13.0
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public Institutions 68.5
Number of women dying in,or in consequence of, childbirth—
From Sepsis 4
,, other causes 2
Death rate of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live
births:—
Legitimate, 69. Illegitimate, 196. Total, 74.