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Shoreditch 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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6.
I. - STA TIS STICS AND GENERAL INFORMATION.
Area of Borough 662 acres
Population, Census 1951 44,871
Population, Registrar-General's estimate, mid-1956 44,520
Number of houses, including separately rated flats
(end of 1956) according to rate books 11,984
Rateable Value £1, 058,161
Sum represented by penny rate £4,100
A great variety of industries is carried on in the borough's 1,220
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 300,

Table: EXTRACTS PROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1956.

EXTRACTS PROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1956.

MaleFemaleTotal
Live births - Legitimate355319674
Illegitimate252752
Birth rate (crude rate)...16.30
Birth rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.89)...14.51
Still births7613
Still births (rate per 1,000 total births)...17.59
Deaths-351337688
Death rate (crude rate)...15.45
Death rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.73)...11.28
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth...Nil
Infant deaths - Legitimate...11
Illegitimate...1
Infant deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)...16.53
Neo-natal deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)...9.64
Deaths from measles (all ages)....Nil
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages)...Nil
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)......1
Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis...4
Deaths from all forms tuberculosis...5
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis...0,09
Death rate from all forms of tuberculosis...0.11