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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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I. - STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area of Borough 662
Population, Census 1951 44,871
Fopulation, Registrar-General's estimate, mid-1953 45,770
Number of houses, including separately rated flats (end of
1953) according to rate books.. 12,026
Rateable Value £640,325
Sum represented by penny rate £,2,540
acres
A great variety of industries is carried on in the borough's 1.295
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 who are resident in the
borough is approximately 350.

Table: EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1953.

EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1953.

MaleFemaleTotal
Live births - Legitimate382394776
Illegitinate201939
Birth rate (crude rate)......17.80
" (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor C.88)......15.66
Still births - 20. rate per 1,000 total birrths......23.95
Deaths - Males 325, Females 290615
Death rate (crude rate)......13.43
" " (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 1.04)......13.96

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Number of women dying in, or in consequence of,• • •
childbirth - Nil
Infant deaths - Legitimate 18
Illegitimate Nil
(Rate per 1,000 live births) 22.08
Neo-natal death rate per 1,000 live births 12.27
Deaths from measles (all ages) Nil
" whooping cough (all ages) Nil
diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 1
" pulmonary tuberculosis. 11
" all forms of tuberculosis 13
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis 0.24
" all forms of tuberculosis 0.28