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 St. Giles District]
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The Ten Localities in the order of their Mortality from Tubercular Diseases. *
Order of Sequence, 1858. | Locality of | Deaths in 1858, from Tubercular Diseases. | Per 10.000. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1857. | 1858. | |||
Best 1St. | L. Lincoln's Inn Fields | 2 | 28 | 8 |
2nd. | B. Russell Square | 8 | 27 | 17 |
3rd & 4th. | A. Bedford Square | 9 | 17 | 25 |
D. Bloomsbury Square | 17 | 22 | 25 | |
5th. | C. Coram Street | 20 | 29 | 31 |
6th to 8th | H. Northern Drury Lane. | 32 | 124 | 63 |
K. Southern Drury Lane | 32 | 45 | 63 | |
G. Short's Gardens | 45 | 67 | 68 | |
9th & 10th. | E. Church Lane | 41 | 65 | 80 |
F. Dudley Street | 69 | 46 | 88 | |
Workhouse Inmates | 9 | — | — | |
Total District |
Let it still be borne in mind, that these numbers are based upon small populations,
and represent the facts for short periods; and it will be sufficient to observe,
that the deaths of 1858 are much more uniformly distributed than in the preceding
year, localities which correspond in their other chief features being more similarly
affected by consumption. In my last report, for 1857, I confessed my inability to
explain the relative position of the different parts of St. Giles, in respect of these
diseases. We are only beginning to learn the degree of dependence of consumption
and allied maladies upon local conditions, and interpretations are less to be sought at
present than accessions to our knowledge by accumulations of facts.
Lung diseases, other than consumption, which produced death in St. Giles's,
last year, were a little less fatal than previously, instead of being, as in the town at
large, distinctly in excess over the preceding year, 1857. The localization of the fatal
diseases of the respiratory organs is shown in the following, to which the remarks just
made on the former table are equally applicable.
The order of Mortality from Diseases of the Lungs.
Order of Sequence, 1858 | Locality of | Deaths from Lung Diseases, 1858. | Acute Lung Disease, Per 10,000. | Total Lung Disease, Per 10,000. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acute. | Chronic. | 1857 | 1858 | 1857 | 1858 | ||
Best 1st & 2nd. | D. Bloomsbury Square | 11 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 25 | 25 |
B. Russell Square | 9 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 28 | |
3rd to 7 th. | G. Short's Gardens | 16 | 13 | 29 | 24 | 47 | 44 |
C. Coram Street | 18 | 11 | 22 | 29 | 39 | 45 | |
E. Church Lane | 16 | 8 | 33 | 32 | 70 | 47 | |
A. Bedford Square | 14 | 3 | 20 | 39 | 42 | 48 | |
L. Lincoln's Inn Fields | 9 | 4 | 16 | 36 | 32 | 52 | |
K. Southern Drury Lane | 22 | 11 | 23 | 43 | 49 | 63 | |
8th & 9th. | H. Northern Drury Lane | 18 | 15 | 44 | 35 | 79 | 63 |
Worst 10th. | F. Dudley Street | 46 | 19 | 54 | 58 | 76 | 83 |
Workhouse Inmates | 4 | 15 | — | — | — | — | |
Total District | 183 | 109 | 30 | 33 | 55 | 53 |
* These include, in this place, consumption affecting the lungs or lymphatic glands,
scrofula, and water-on-the-brain in children. Six of the last kind of cases arc included with
brain diseases in Table III appendix. Hence an apparent in consistency,