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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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GENERAL DATA
| Area of Borough | 662 acres | |||
| Average height above sea-level | 60 feet | |||
| Estimated number of houses (including separately-rated flats) | 9,500 | |||
| Number of families (1931 census) | 25,156 | |||
| Rateable value | £685,000 | |||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £2,254 | |||
| SHOREDITCH | LONDON | |||
| 1943 | Average 1933-1942 | 1943 | Average 1933-1942 | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 18.92 | 15.45 | 15.8 | 13.10 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births) | 35.92 | 31.67 | -† | -† |
| Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living) | 15.68 | 14.11 | 15.0 | 13.28 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 23.74 | 23.39 | -† | -† |
| Infantile mortality rate— | ||||
| (deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 46 | 62 | 58 | 59 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) | 2.98 | 2.23 | -† | -† |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 2.65 | 1.9 | -† | -† |
| „ ,, „ cancer | 206 | 1.77 | -† | -† |
| ,, „ ,, diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 births | 7.45 | 14.53 | 10.4 | 10.55 |
| ,, „ ,, pulmonary tuberculosis | 1.3 | 0.97 | -† | -† |
| Notifications of tuberculosis (per 1,000 population) | 2.7 | 1.72 | -† | -† |
| † Figures not available. | ||||
PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICAL INFORMATION
VITAL STATISTICS
| Population, estimated at midsummer, 1943 | 35,460 | ||
| Number of births registered | 671 | Birth rate (per 1,000 population) | 18.92 |
| „ „ still births registered | 25 | Still birth rate (per 1,000 live births) | 37.25 |
| „ „ infant deaths registered | 31 | Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) | 46 |
| „ ,, deaths registered | 556* | Death rate (per 1,000 population) | 15.68 |
| „ „ maternal deaths registered | 2 | Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 2.98 |
| * Includes 14 due to "other violent causes." | |||
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| (1) Infectious diseases | (2) Cases notified | (3) Removed to hospital | (4) Deaths registered | (1) Infectious diseases | (2) Cases notified | (3) Removed to hospital | (4) Deaths registered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever | 194 | 186 | - | Measles | 411 | 181 | 2 |
| Diphtheria, membranous croup | 62 | 62 | — | Whooping cough | 116 | 45 | 1 |
| Enteric (including paratyphoid) | - | - | - | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 8 | 2 | - |
| Acute primary or influenzal pneumonia | 27 | 9 | 6 | Puerperal fever | 4 | 3 | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 8 | 7 | - | ||||
| Erysipelas | 27 | 20 | 1 | Cerebro spinal fever | 11 | 11 | 1 |
| Acute poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | — | Continued fever | 1 | 1 | — |
| Dysentery | 92 | 87 | — | Scabies—first case in housed | 231 | — | — |
| Tuberculosis—pulmonary | 82 | — | 46 | ||||
| „ other forms | 14 | - | 6 | ||||
| ‡Notiftable from 1.8.43 | |||||||