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Shoreditch 1934
[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 ; Registrar-General's
estimate mid-1934—90,630. Number of structurally separate dwellings, 1931
Census—14,115. Number of houses (end of 1934) according to Rate Books—14,077.
Number of families and separate occupiers, 1931 Census—25,156. Rateable value—
£825,378. Sum represented by penny rate—£3,439. The length of public streets in
the Borough is 4-3 miles.
Briefly, Shoreditch is a densely populated (average 137 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 VII of this report, page 103.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1934.
| Total. | M. | F. | Birth Rate. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Legitimate | 1,402 | 747 | 655 | 16.06 |
| Illegitimate | 54 | 34 | 20 | ||
| 1,456 | 781 | 675 | |||
Still births Rate per 1,000 total births 31.27
General death rate (Crude rate) 13.11
Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public Institutions 73.1
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—
From Sepsis —
,, other causes 1
Death rate of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births—
Legitimate, 85. Illegitimate, 56. Total, 84.