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Southwark 1893

Annual report for 1893 of the Medical Officer of Health

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82 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

Table: TABLE IV.Comparative Analysis of Population, Density. Deaths, and Notification Rate in London, and the undermentioned South London Districts, during the year 1893.

TABLE IV.

Comparative Analysis of Population, Density. Deaths, and Notification Rate in London, and the undermentioned South London Districts, during the year 1893.

Sanitary Area.Estimated Population middle of 1893.Persons to an Acre.Annual rate per 1,000 living.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births.Notification rate per 1,000.
Deaths from all Causes.Deathsfr'm principal Zymotic Diseases.
St. George, Southwark59,92421127.64.021317.7
St. Saviour, Southwark26,85413224.23.115414.6
Newington117,67218524.33.717617.0
St. Olave, Southwark12,90310324.22.214115.7
Bermondsey84,24613523.83.316813.0
Rotherhithe40,0205323.23.416515.3
Lambeth280,2847120.52.714914.4
Battersea158,1057118.93.616918.1
Wandsworth172,1431815.22.514213.4
Camberwell245,1435419.32.516112.8
Greenwich171,1204920.53.516515.4
Lewisham (excluding Penge)77,4731514.61.712813.2
Woolwich41,8643720.12.416010.2
Plumstead94,596916.43.013713.2
London4,306,4115721.33016415.6

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The foregoing table shows that St. George's—the most densely-populated district
in the United Kingdom—had among the South London Sanitary areas in 1893:—
(1) The highest general death rate. (2) The highest zymotic or preventable deathrate.
(3) The largest number of deaths of infants under one year of age.
It also had the highest notification-rate of infectious diseases, with the single
exception of Battersea.