Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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6 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
TABLE 4.—
DISEASES | District Mortality | NEW CASES OF SICKNESS DURING TIIE QUARTER | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Estimated present Population, 55,000 | Out and In-door Poor | INSTITUTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||
Kent Road 105 Acres Ppn. 1851. 18,116 | London Road, 112 Acres Ppn. 1851, 17,830 | Boro' Road, 65 Acres. Ppn. 1851, 15,862 | Workhouse. Average Inmates, 493 | Kent Road, Mr. Babbage | London Road, Mr. Waltem | Boro' Road, Mr. Llewellyn | Workhouse, Mr. Brown | Royal South London Dispensary | Bethienem Hospital, &c. Av. Inmts. 425 15 Acres | House of Occupations, Av. Inmts. 192 | Queen's Bench Prison | School for Indigent. Blind Acres. 3.3.10 Av Inmntes.. 175 | Asylum lor Deaf & Dumb | 4 Acres Av. Inmts. 340 | Magdaien Hospital 3½ Acres Av. Inmts 130 | Brit'.sh Schools, Boro' Road, | ½ Acre, Av. Inmts. 84 | Yorkshne sehls Wcstminster Rd. | 3/8 Acre, Av. Inmts. 38 | Sickness Total | |||
Small Pox | - | - | - | - | Included in the Boro' Road District | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Reported as extremely healthy. | - | - | No serious Illness. | - | 1 Case of Sore Throat. | - | 2 | |
Chicken Pox | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 11 | |||||
Measles | 2 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 7 | 2 | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | |||||
Scarlatina, Malignant Sore Throat | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 10 | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | |||||
Hooping Cough | 5 | 5 | 10 | - | 9 | 12 | 7 | - | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 55 | |||||
Diarrhœa | - | - | 2 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 15 | - | 16 | 4 | - | - | 3 | - | 5 | - | - | 70 | |||||
Dysentery | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | 3 | |||||
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | |||||
Fever | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 16 | 4 | 17 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 42 | |||||
Ague | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | |||||
Rheumatic Fever | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | — | - | - | — | - | - | - | — | 4 | |||||
Rheumatism | 1 | - | 1 | - | 14 | 17 | 14 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 57 | |||||
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 8 | |||||
Pyaemia | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Carbuncle | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | 11 | |||||
Chronic Lung Diseases, (except phthisis) | 2 | 3 | - | - | 26 | 16 | 33 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 85 | |||||
Phthisis | 14 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 10 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 62 | |||||
Acute Lung Diseases | Bronchitis & Catarrh | 12 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 72 | 59 | 74 | 14 | 93 | 6 | - | - | 17 | - | - | - | - | 335 | ||||
Pleurisy | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | |||||
Pneumonia | 7 | 7 | 10 | - | 3 | 19 | 5 | - | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60 | |||||
Croup | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 10 | |||||
Hydrocephalus, Tabes, Scrophula, Spasmodic Croup, Convulsions of Infants | 18 | 16 | 21 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 7 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 49 | |||||
Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic | 25 | 24 | 31 | 12 | 230 | 215 | 262 | 71 | 792 | 7 | 1 | - | 20 | - | - | - | - | 1598 | |||||
Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | |||||
Sudden Deaths | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||||
Mental Disease | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | - | 54 | - | - | - | — | - | — | 66 | ||||||
Dyptheria | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||||
103 | 108 | 127 | 33 | 440 | 426 | 481 | 125 | 1019 | 75 | 12 | - | 45 | 4 | 10 | - | 1 | 2639 |