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 Camberwell, St. Giles]
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Table III. Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell, during the year terminating December, 1859.
In what Localities? | At what Ages? | From what Causes? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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M. | F. | M. F. | 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, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever. | Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of Infants under three years. | Measles, Hooping-cough, and Croup | Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of Infancy. | Phthisis and other Tubercular diseases. | Other diseases, chiefly Chronic. | |
First Quarter | 169 | 206 | 375 | 129 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 44 | 31 | 24 | 40 | 57 | 21 | 7 | ... | 22 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 28 | 27 | 49 | 176 |
Second Quarter | 137 | 146 | 283 | 98 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 23 | 34 | 24 | 22 | 33 | 19 | 9 | • • • | 22 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 36 | 135 |
Third Quarter | 165 | 193 | 358 | 164 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 26 | 34 | 26 | 54 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 96 | 12 | 16 | 43 | 139 |
Fourth Quarter | 170 | 181 | 351 | 103 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 31 | 32 | 50 | 64 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 14 | 23 | 54 | 172 |
General total | 641 | 726 | 1367 | 494 | 58 | 17 | 26 | 77 | 113 | 122 | 114 | 138 | 208 | 81 | 31 | 4 | 82 | 12 | 15 | 183 | 66 | 89 | 182 | 622 |
N.B.—The Registrar General's division of the
Parish of Camberwell, with the Population
of each sub-District at the last
census is as follows:
The entire Parish of Camberwell,
Population 54,667,
Comprised in four sub-Districts.
DULWICH, - Population 1632
CAMBERWELL, „ 17,742 with "Workhouse
PECKHAM, - „ 19,444
ST. GEOEGKE'S, „ 15,849