London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1854
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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| IN WHAT LOCALITIES? | TOTAL. | AT WHAT AGES ? | FROM WHAT CAUSES? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sub-Districts. | Workhouses. | 0 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 30 | 30 to 40 | 40 to 50 | 50 to 60 | 60 to 70 | 70 and over. | Violence, Privation, Poison and Premature Birth. | Fever. | Dysentery and Acute Diarrhoea (not of infants) and Cholera. | Scarlet-Fever and Cynanche Maligna. | Small-Pox. | Erysipelas, Pyaemia and Puerperal Fever. | Diarrhoea, Bronchitis and Pneumonia of infants under 3 years of age. | Measles, Hooping-cough and Croup. | Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of infancy. | Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases. | Other Diseases, chiefly chronic. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | M. | F. | M. | F. | M.F. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17. East London Union | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18. West London Union | * | * | * | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19. City of London Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General Total for the Week | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N. B. The Registrar-General's division
of the City, with the population of
each department at the last Census,
is as follows:—
Entire City of London
(within and without
the walls) — Pop.
129,922, comprised
in three Districts or
Unions, viz.:—
17. District of the East London Union.— Pop.
44,593, comprised in two sub-districts and two
Workhouses, viz.:—
1. St. Botolph sub-district, Pop. 23,435.
2. Cripplegate sub-district, Pop. 20,582.
Workhouses, Pop. 576.
18. District of the West London Union.— Pop.
28,603, comprised in two sub-districts and a Workhouse,
viz.:—
1. North sub-district, Pop. 12,350.
2. South sub-district, Pop. 15,844.
Workhouse, Pop. 409.
19. District of the City of London Union.—
Pop. 56,726, comprised in five sub-districts and
a Workhouse, viz.:—
1. South- West sub-district, Pop. 9,204.
2. North- West sub-district, Pop. 11,847.
3. South sub-district. Pop. 11,461.
4. South-East sub-district, Pop. 10,594.
5. North-East sub-district, Pop. 12,820.
Workhouse, Pop. 794.
* In this Form is furnished a weekly transcript from the several Registrationpapers
relating to the City. In dividing its last section into columns for the more
important Causes of Death, regard has been had to those terms which are most
commonly presented in the Register: and although cases occur for which the above
headings do not distinctly provide, it is not difficult to distribute them according to the
intention of the table. For instance, when "Dysentery" or "Thrush" is registered
as the cause of death of an infant, it is counted as "Diarrhoea" ; when "Teething"
alone is named, this is entered under the head of " Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of
Infancy"; and an occasional death ascribed to "Mumps" is entered in the fourth
column.