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Shoreditch 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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6.
I. - STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Area of Borough 662 acres
Population, Census 1951 44,871
Population, Registrar-General's estimate, mid-1954 45,960
Number of houses, including separately rated flats (end of
1954) according to rate books 12,458
Rateable Value £648,377
Sum represented by penny rate £2,550
A great variety of industries is carried on in the borough's 1,306
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 1954.

EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1954.

MaleFemaleTotal
Live births - Legitimate372345717
Illegitimate301848
Birth rate (crude rate)......16.64
" " (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.88)......14.64
Still births - 17 rate per 1,000 total births.......21.74
Deaths - Males 295 Females 265560
Death rate (crude rate)......1,218
" " (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 1.04)......12.67
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth......Nil
Infant deaths Legitimate16
" " Illegitimate1
" " (Rate per 1,000 live births)......23.10
Neo-natal deatn rate per 1,000 live births......19.03
Deaths from measles (all ages)......Nil
" " whooping cough (all ages)......Nil
" diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)......Nil
" " pulmonary tuberculosis......11
" " all. forms of tuberculosis......12
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis......0.24
" " " all forms of tuberculosis......0.26