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Shoreditch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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SUMMARY
1937
Area of Borough 662 acres
Average height above sea.level 60 feet
Population (Registrar.General's mid.year estimate) 82,240
Estimated number of houses 13,983
Number of families (1931 census) 25,156
Rateable value £800,117
Sum represented by a penny rate £3,133
Table No. 1
| London. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937. | Average. 1927.1936. | 1937. | Average. 1927.1936. | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 14.86 | 17.84 | 13.4 | 14 62 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births) | 32.73 | 32.06 | 38.8 | 32.151 |
| Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living) | 12.47 | 12.98 | 12.5 | 12.10 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 21.18 | 19.26 | 21.9 | 19.08 |
| Infantile mortality rate— (Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 54 | 74 | 60 | 64 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) | 3.27 | 2.22 | 2.29 | 2.99 |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 1.68 | 1 86 | 1.31 | 1.48 |
| ,, ,, ,, cancer | 1.62 | 1.45 | 1 .75 | 1.62 |
| „ „ „ diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 births | 9.00 | 13.80 | 12.3 | 11.13 |
| Cases. | Case. rate. | Deaths. | Death. rate. | |
| Smallpox | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Scarlet fever | 168 | 2.04 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | 125 | 1.52 | 3 | 0.04 |
| Typhoid fever | 8 | 0.10 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Measles (all ages) | — | — | 2 | 0.02 |
| ,, (notified cases under 5 years) | 112‡ | — | — | — |
| Puerperal fever | 3 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 113 | 1.37 | 73 | 0.89 |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 27 | 0.33 | 13 | 0.16 |
* Average rate for 1930.1936 ; Still births were not recorded before 1930.
‡ This figure represents only the first cases under 5 years in each household.