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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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I. - STATISTICS AMD GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area -- S62 acres. Population, Census 1931-97,033; RegistrarGenerai's
estimate, mid-1948-44,960, Number of structurally
separate dwellings, 1931 Census- 14,115. Number of houses (end
of 1948) according to rate books-9,450. Rateable value - £605,000.
Sum represented by penny rate-£2,352.
A great variety of industries is carried on in the Borough's
l,237 factories. Furniture-making is one of the most common of
these, and one which is by tradition firmly established in the
Borough. The number of home workers notified under the Factories
Act was 407.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR, 1948.
| Male | Female | Total | Birth Rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Legitimate | 414 | 384 | 798 | |
| illegitimate | 25 | 30 | 55 | ||
| 439 | 414 | 853 | 18.97 | ||
| Still births 14 Rate per 1,000 total births | 16.15 | ||||
| General death rate (crude rate) | 11.78 | ||||
| Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions | 70.5 | ||||
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth - From sepsis 1 From other causes | Nill | ||||
| Death rate of infants under one year of age. per 1,000 live births Legitimate 23.81 Illegitimate .36.36 Total | 24.62 | ||||
| Deaths from measles (all ages) | 1 | ||||
| " whooping cough (all ages) | 1 | ||||
| " " diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 2 | ||||
| " pulmonary tuberculosis | 35 | ||||
| " all forms of tuberculosis | 38 | ||||
| Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis | 0.77 | ||||
| " " all forms of tuberculosis | 0.84 | ||||