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of deaths due to accidents in connection with vehicular traffic was 7. In the years
1934 to 1937 inclusive, the corresponding figures were respectively 19, 17, 7 and 10.
The particulars regarding deaths from cancer are contained in Table No. 26 on
page 34.
The death rate for Shoreditch for 1937 was 12.5, so that the rate for 1938
represents a definite decrease. The crude rate for Shoreditch is well below the
average for the last ten years, and it is also below that for England and Wales,
and equal to that of London. The crude death rate does not give a very accurate
conception of the position, but it should be noted (see Table No. 25 on page 32)
that there are five other London boroughs whose adjusted death rates are higher
than that of Shoreditch. As has been mentioned, the number of deaths upon which
the crude death rate is calculated was 915, and the corresponding figure for 1937
was 1,026.
The main alterations in numbers compared with 1937 were as follows

The ward death rates given in Table No. 15 show no very unusual features.
The particulars regarding deaths from tuberculosis are given in Section IV
of this report.
The following table shows the age-grouping of deaths from all causes :—