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Shoreditch 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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7.
I. - STATISTICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area of Borough 662 acres
Population, Census 1951 44,871
Population, Registrar-General's estimate, mid-1955 45,480
Number of houses, including separately rated flats
(end of 1955) according to rate books 12,454
Rateable Value £653,329
Sum represented by penny rate £2,590
A great variety of industries is carried on in the borough's 1,265
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 1955.

EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1955.

MaleFemaleTotal
Live births-Legitimate366340706
Illegitimate282755
Birth rate (crude rate)...16.73
Birth rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.88)...14.72
Still births...17
Still births (rate per 1,000 total births)...21.85
Deaths—321.264585
Death rate (crude rate)...12.86
Death rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 1.04)...13.37
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth...Nil
Infant deaths-Legitimate...14
Illegitimate...1
Infant deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)...19.71
Neo-natal deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)...15.76
Deaths from measles (all ages)...Nil
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages)...Nil
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)...Nil
Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis...14
Deaths from all forms tuberculosis...15
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis...0.31
Death rate from all forms of tuberculosis...0.33