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Shoreditch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Table No. 31
| Ward. | No. of cases | Fatal cases. | Rates per 1.000 population. | Case mortality Deaths per 100 cases. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||
| Attack. | Death. | ||||||||
| Moorfields | 7 | 7 | 14 | 4.20 | |||||
| Church | 13 | 9 | 22 | 1.58 | |||||
| Hoxton | 16 | 13 | 29 | 2.15 | |||||
| Wenlock | 12 | 14 | 26 | 1.95 | |||||
| Whitmore | 10 | 15 | 25 | 1.98 | |||||
| Kingsland | 3 | 12 | 15 | 1.85 | |||||
| Haggerston | 14 | 8 | 22 | 2.63 | |||||
| Acton | 4 | 11 | 15 | 1.65 | |||||
| Total | 79 | 89 | 168 | 2.04 | |||||
| London | 8,554 | 33 | 2.09 | 0.01 | 0.38 | ||||
The number of cases in Shoreditch was less than in 1936, in which year there
were 256 cases with an attack rate of 3.00.
The following table gives particulars regarding scarlet fever for Shoreditch,
London, and England and Wales for a period of years:—
SCARLET FEVER
Table No. 32
| Year. | Shoreditch. | London. | England & Wales. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases notified | Case rate | Deaths | Death rate | Case rate | Death rate | Case rate | Death rate | |
| 1920 | 513 | 5.3 | 5 | 0.04 | 5.0 | 0.05 | 3.19 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 917 | 8.7 | 7 | 0.06 | 7.3 | 0.06 | 3.64 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 337 | 3.2 | 6 | 0.07 | 3.8 | 0.07 | 2.85 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 391 | 3.7 | 6 | 0.06 | 2.2 | 0.02 | 2.24 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 366 | 3.4 | 2 | 0.02 | 2.5 | 0.02 | 2.16 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 485 | 4.5 | 5 | 0.04 | 2.7 | 0.03 | 2.36 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 432 | 4.0 | 4 | 0.04 | 2.7 | 0.02 | 2.10 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 383 | 3.7 | 3 | 0.03 | 2.9 | 0.01 | 2.16 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 457 | 4.6 | 3 | 0.03 | 3.4 | 0.02 | 2.61 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 314 | 3.2 | 3 | 0.03 | 3.6 | 0.02 | 3.05 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 384 | 3.9 | 1 | 0.01 | 3.8 | 0.02 | 2.76 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 263 | 2.7 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.8 | 0.02 | 2.05 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 419 | 4.4 | 6 | 0.06 | 3.3 | 0.02 | 2.12 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 567 | 6.1 | 0 | 0.00 | 5.1 | 0.02 | 3.21 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 306 | 3.5 | 2 | 0.02 | 2.6 | 0.01 | 3.76 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 364 | 4.0 | 2 | 0.02 | 4.3 | 0.02 | 2.96 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 256 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.6 | 0.01 | 2.53 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 168 | 2.0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.1 | 0.01 | 2.33 | 0.01 |