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Shoreditch 1957

[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-1957 43,870
Number of houses, including separately rated flats
(end of 1957 according to rate books 11,377
Rateable Value £963,286
Sum represented by penny rate £3,850
A great variety of industries is carried on in the borough's 1,215
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 FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1957.

EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1957.

MaleFemaleTotal
Live births - Legitimate340341681
Illegitimate321648
Birth rate (crude rate)16.61
Birth rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.90)14.95
Still births538
Still births (rate per 1,000 total births)10.86
Deaths336279615
Death rate (crude rate)14.01
Death rate (adjusted for Area Comparability Factor 0.75)10.51
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirthNil
Infant deaths - Legitimate15
Illegitimate1
Infant deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)21.94
Neo-natal deaths (rate per 1,000 live births)13.71
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 tuberculosis5
Deaths from all forms tuberculosis5
Death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis0.11
Death rate from all forms of tuberculosis0.11