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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 1944
[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) 9,300
Number of families (1931 census) 25,156
Rateable value £673,000
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,313
SHOREDITCH
LONDON
| Average | Average | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 1934-1943 | 1944 | 1934-1943 | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 18.73 | 15.56 | 15.0 | 13.36 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births) | 25.00 | 31.39 | -† | -† |
| Death rats (deaths per 1,000 living) | 16.50 | 14.36 | 15.7 | 13.56 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 21.14 | 24.26 | -† | -† |
| Infantile mortality rate— | ||||
| (deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 36 | 59 | 61 | 59 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) | 3.02 | 2.02 | -† | -† |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 1.86 | 1.96 | -† | -† |
| ,, „ „ cancer | 2.77 | 1.83 | -† | -† |
| , „ „ diarrhtea and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 births | 9.05 | 14.04 | 10.1 | 10.42 |
| „ ,, pulmonary tuberculosis | 0.76 | 0.99 | -† | -† |
| Notifications of tuberculosis (per 1,000 population) | 2.35 | 1.73 | -† | -† |
† Figures not available
PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICAL INFORMATION
VITAL STATISTICS
Population, estimated at midsummer, 1944
Number of births registered 663
„ „ still births registered 17
„ „ infant deaths registered 24
„ „ deaths registered 584*
„ ,, maternal deaths registered 2
35,390
Birth rate (per 1,000 population) 18.73
Still birth rate (per 1,000 live births) 25.64
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 births) 36
Death rate (per 1,000 population) 16.50
Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) 3.02
* Includes 51 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 | 91 | 82 | - | Measles | 101 | 60 | - |
| Diphtheria, membranous croup | 30 | 30 | - | Whooping cough | 207 | 105 | 2 |
| Enteric (including paratyphoid) | 1 | 1 | - | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 5 | — | — |
| Acute primary or influenzal pneumonia | 24 | 12 | - | Puerperal fever | 1 | 1 | I |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 2 | 2 | — | ||||
| Erysipelas | II | 10 | — | Cerebro spinal fever | 6 | 6 | — |
| Acute poliomyelitis | — | — | — | Continued fever | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 43 | 42 | — | Scabies—first case in house | 330 | 10 | — |
| Tuberculosis—pulmonary | 75 | — | 27 | Malaria | 3 | 2 | — |
| „ other forms | 8 | - | 3 | Typhoid | 1 | 1 |