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Shoreditch 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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GENERAL DATA
| 1939 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area of Borough | 662 acres | |||
| Average height above sea-level | 60 feet | |||
| Estimated number of houses (including separately-rated flats) | 14,157 | |||
| Number of families (1931 Census) | 25,156 | |||
| Rateable Value | £829,542 | |||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,058 | |||
| SHOREDITCH | LONDON | |||
| 1939 | Average 1929-1938 | 1939 | Average 1929-1938 | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 14.40 | 16.62 | 12.3 | 14.08 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births | 34.69 | 31.94* | —† | 34.23* |
| Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living) | 12.92 | 12.72 | 11.9 | 12.12 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 26.80 | 19.57 | —† | 19.75 |
| Infantile mortality rate (Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 31 | 71 | 48 | 63 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) | 1.84 | 2.33 | —† | 2>76 |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 1.42 | 1.68 | —† | 1.39 |
| ,, ,, ,, cancer | 1.84 | 1.52 | —† | 1.67 |
| ,, ,, ,, diarrhcea and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 births | 5.40 | 15.17 | 8.2 | 11.88 |
| ,, ,, ,, pulmonary tuberculosis | 0.93 | 0.84 | —† | 0.78 |
| Notifications of tuberculosis (per 1,000 population) | 1.25 | 1.81 | —† | 1.38 |
* 1930-1938.
† Figures not available.
PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICAL INFORMATION Relating to 1939
VITAL STATISTICS
| Population, estimated at midsummer, 1939— | (a) for birth rate | 77,280 | |
| (b) for death rate | 72,910 | ||
| No. of births registered | 1,113 | Birth rate (per 1,000 population) | 14.40 |
| No. of still births registered | 40 | Still birth rate (per 1,000 births) | 34.69 |
| No. of infant deaths registered | 34 | Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) | 31 |
| No. of deaths registered | 942 | Death rate (per 1,000 population) | 12.92 |
| Corrected death rate (comparability factor 1 -10) | 14.21 | ||
| No. of maternal deaths registered | 2 | Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 1.84 |
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | Cases notified | Removed to hospital | Deaths registered | Infectious Diseases | Cases notified | Removed to hospital | Deaths registered |
| Scarlet fever | 126 | 124 | — | Tuberculosis—pulmonary | 73 | — | 68 |
| Diphtheria, membranous croup | 139 | 138 | 2 | Tuberculosis—other forms | 18 | — | 11 |
| Enteric (including paratyphoid) | — | — | — | Measles | 14 | 8 | — |
| Acute primary or influenzal pneumonia | 96 | 84 | 57 | Whooping cough | 207 | 74 | 7 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 16 | 5 | — | ||||
| Erysipelas | 34 | 23 | 2 | Puerperal fever | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Acute poliomyelitis | — | — | — | Puerperal pyrexia | 8 | 7 | — |
| Dysentery | 18 | 18 | — | Other notifiable diseases | 7 | 7 | 2 |