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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 1934
[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, 1934.
| DISTRICTS. | Estimated Population 1934. | BIRTHS. | ANNUAL RATE PER 1,000 PERSONS LIVING. | Infants under 1 year. Death rate per 1,000 Live Births. | PERCENTAGE TO TOTAL DEATHS. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEATHS DURING THE YEARS | DEATHS DURING 1934 FROM | Inquest Cases. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Uncertified Causes of Death. | ||||||||||||||||
| I (cols 2-8) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7' | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | *Fever. | Diarrhœa Enteritis (under 2 years) | Tuberculous Disease, | Violence. | |||||||||||
| 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | |||||||||||||||||
| London | 4,230,200 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.2 | 11.9 | 0.57 | o.oo | 0.20 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.83 | 0.56 | 67 | 6.3 | – | 0.00 |
| Shoreditch | 90,630 | 16.1 | 12.5 | 12.3 | 13.0 | 13.1 | 0.96 | ... | 0.32 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.13 | ... | 0.34 | 1.04 | 0.53 | 84 | 5.2 | 73.1 | ... |
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| Moorfields | 3,669 | 14.2 | 10.6 | 16.9 | 14.6 | 14.0 | 1.09 | ... | 0.27 | ... | ... | 0.27 | ... | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.27 | 96 | 2.0 | 75.5 | ... |
| Church | 15,320 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 13.3 | 13.9 | 14.4 | 1.24 | ... | 0.19 | ... | 0.19 | 0.19 | ... | 0.52 | 1.44 | 0.20 | 80 | 2.7 | 74.2 | ... |
| Hoxton | 14,848 | 14.8 | 12'4 | 13.7 | 12.5 | 13.8 | 0.94 | ... | 0.40 | ... | 0.14 | 0.20 | ... | 0.20 | 0.67 | 0.54 | 87 | 5.9 | 70.7 | ... |
| Wenlock | 14,652 | 15.7 | 11.6 | 113 | 11.4 | 13.0 | 1.43 | ... | 0.34 | 0.14 | 0.27 | 0.14 | ... | 0.61 | 1.02 | 0.61 | 117 | 7.1 | 79.2 | ... |
| Whitmore | 13,979 | 17.2 | 12.9 | 12.5 | 14.5 | 13.7 | 0.84 | ... | 0.29 | ... | 0.21 | 0.07 | ... | 0.29 | 1.22 | 0.86 | 104 | 7.3 | 75.5 | ... |
| Kingsland | 8,939 | 16.5 | 12.1 | 115 | 132 | 12.4 | 0.43 | ... | 0.11 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.33 | 1.12 | 0.56 | 82 | 5.4 | 71.2 | ... |
| Haggerston | 9,218 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 119 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 0.87 | ... | 0*76 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.11 | 1 .08 | 0.54 | 41 | 4.2 | 67.5 | ... |
| Acton | 10,005 | 15.6 | 10.0 | 94 | 13.4 | 10.7 | 0.60 | ... | 0.20 | ... | 0.10 | 0.20 | ... | 0.10 | 0.80 | 0.50 | 45 | 4.7 | 67.3 | ... |
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* Fever includes typhus, typhoid and continued fevers.
† Diarrhoea in this table includes enteritis in children under two years.
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate per 1.000 within two places of decimals, 0.00 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 1934.