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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St George (Southwark) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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4 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southieark.
TABLE 2.—
| Conditions of Locality | Parish | Height above Trinity High Water Mark | Area in Acres | Population, 1851 | Each Person represents Annual Value Reg. General's Report | Each Person pays to Relief of Poor Pop. 1851, rates 1856 | Same Rate as St. Geo.'s Southwark, each should pay | Density. Persons to an Acre | Average Annual Mortality in 10,000, 1841 to 1850 | Mortality from Cholera, to every i 10,000 Inhabitants, j Mean of 1840 & 1854 j | Deaths to 1000 Living 1841—50 | The Quarter ending September, 1857 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zymotic Mortality | Fever | Diarrhoea | Total Mortality to Sept. 30 | Births | Excess of Births over Deaths to Sept. 30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. | St. James | 58 | 164 | 36,406 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 222 | 206 | 84.0 | 22 | 47 | 7 | 26 | 182 | ... | 48 | |
| High Level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wealthy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. | Hampstead | 350 | 2252 | 11,986 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 178 | 9.5 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 72 | ... | 18 | |
| High Level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium Circumstances. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. | St. Giles | 68 | 245 | 54,214 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 221 | 252 | 37.0 | 27 | 100 | 6 | 58 | 325 | ... | 116 | ||
| High Level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium Circumstances. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. | Camberwell | 4342 | 54,667 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 231 | 94.0 | 24 | 68 | 10 | 34 | 290 | ... | 204 | ||
| Low Level. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Poor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. George's, Southwark,— | M. | F. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. | Kent-rd. District | 1 | 105 | 18,126 | ... | .. | . | 173 | 252 | 1132.5 | 33 | 5 | 20 | 68 | 69 | ... | ||||||
| Low Level. | Borough-rd. „ | 2 | 65 | 15,862 | ... | ... | 244 | 347 | ... | 34 | 7 | 21 | 76 | 87 | ... | |||||||
| Poor. | London-rd. „ | 0 | 112 | 17,836 | ... | ... | 159 | 250 | 19 | 3 | 13 | ... | 90 | 75 | ... | |||||||
| 234 | 231 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 282 | 51,824 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 184 | 281 | ... | 30 | 86 | 15 | 54 | 279 | 465 | 184 | ||
| Newington | 1 | 624 | 64,186 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 104 | 247 | 122.5 | 26 | 79 | 9 | 56 | 385 | ... | 257 | ||
| Bermondsey | 0 | 688 | 48,128 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 70 | 268 | 159.5 | 28 | 67 | 7 | 44 | 253 | ... | 226 | ||
| Dense Population. | Bethnal Green | 38 | 760 | 90,193 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 119 | 242 | 55.0 | 26 | 195 | 26 | 88 | 588 | ... | 295 | |
| Medium Height. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Very Poor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| All L.ondon | ... | ... | 2,480,347 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | ... | ... | ... | 25 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||