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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 1946
[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 | £630,000 | |||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £2,625 | |||
| SHOREDITCH | LONDON | |||
| -\ Average | Average | |||
| 1946 | 1936-1945 | 1946 | 1936-1945 | |
| Birth rate (rate per 1,000 living) | 23.36 | 16.73 | 21.5 | 15.35 |
| Still births (rate per 1,000 total births) | 26.42 | 29.46 | 23.83 | 32.37 |
| Death rate (deaths per 1,000 living) | 14.41 | 16.30 | 12.7 | 14.73 |
| Marriage rate (persons married per 1,000 living) | 21.88 | 26.58 | 23.22 | 25.05 |
| Infantile mortality rate— (deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births) | 32 | 53 | 41 | 53 |
| Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) | 2.01 | 2.25 | 1.28 | 2.14 |
| Death rate from pneumonia and bronchitis | 2.25 | 2.27 | 1.96 | 1.78 |
| „ „ „ cancer | 2.28 | 2.11 | 2.04 | 2 .12 |
| „ „ „ diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 years) per 1,000 | ||||
| births | 5.03 | 12.11 | 4.2 | 9.52 |
| „ ,, „ pulmonary tuberculosis | 0.92 | 1.07 | 0.62 | 0.87 |
| Notifications of tuberculosis (per 1,000 population) | 2.07 | 2.01 | -† | 1.82 |
| † Figures not available. | ||||
PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICAL INFORMATION
VITAL STATISTICS
| Population, estimated at midsummer, 1946 | 42,600 | ||
| Number of births registered : legitimate | 926 | Birth rate (per 1,000 population) | 23.36 |
| illegitimate | 69. | ||
| „ „ stillbirths registered | 27 | Stillbirth rate (per 1,000 total births) | 26 .42 |
| „ „ infant deaths registered | 32 | Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 32 |
| „ „ deaths registered | 614 | Death rate (per 1,000 population) | 14.41 |
| „ ,, maternal deaths registered | 2 | Maternal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 2.01 |
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| (1) Infectious diseases | (2) Cases notified | (3) Removed to hospital | (4) Deaths registered | (i) Infectious diseases | (2) Cases notified | (3) Removed to hospital | (4) Deaths registered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever | 73 | 65 | - | Measles | 562 | 135 | - |
| Diphtheria, membranous croup | 13 | 13 | - | Whooping cough | 163 | 44 | - |
| Enteric (including paratyphoid) | - | - | - | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | 2 | - |
| Acute primary or influenzal | - | - | - | Puerperal fever | - | - | - |
| pneumonia | 24 | 3 | 35 | Puerperal pyrexia | 1 1 | 10 | - |
| Erysipelas | 13 | 13 | - | Cerebro spinal fever | 9 | 9 | 1 |
| Acute poliomyelitis ... | — | Continued fever | - | - | - | ||
| Dysentery | 33 | 33 | — | Scabies—first case in house | 154 | - | -_ |
| Tuberculosis—pulmonary | 78 | - | 39 | ||||
| „ other forms | 10 | - | 4 | ||||