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Shoreditch 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The distribution of the corrected births and the birth rates in the eight wards of the borough are given below :—
| Ward | Males | Females | Total | Births per l,000 population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
STILL BIRTHS
The numbers of still births registered in the Borough during the calendar year
1938 are given in the following table :—
| Total (legitimate and illegitimate) | Still births registered | Inward transfers | Outward transfers | Still births allocated to the Borough |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | ||||
| — | — | |||
| — | — |
The birth rate for the borough as a whole was 14.7. For England and Wales
the birth rate was 15.1 and for London 13.4. The illegitimate births numbered 52,
of which 26 were males and 26 females. Of these, 29, of which 14 were males, occurred
in St. Leonard's Hospital. The illegitimate births therefore represented 4.4 per cent.
of all the births in the borough during the year.
The number of births which occurred in St. Leonard's Hospital was 650 :
343 males and 307 females. In 128 of these the parents were not Shoreditch residents.