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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 Giles (Camden) 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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tality from these diseases in 1859, tbe table being so arranged that different localities
and different years mny be at once compared:—
Mortality from Tubercular Diseases in the Ten Subdivisions.
| Order of Sequence, 1859. | Locality of | Deaths from Tuberer. Diseases. | Total Tuberer. Diseas. Per 10,000. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrofula, Mesentc. Disease & Consumpt. | Water on the Brain, | Total. | |||||
| 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | |||||
| 1st. | B. Russell Square | 8 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 17 | 19 |
| 2nd, 3rd, 4th. | D. RIoomsbury Sqre. | 14 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 30 |
| L. Lincoln's Inn Fids. | 8 | - | 8 | 28 | 8 | 32 | |
| A. Bedford Square | 10 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 25 | 33 | |
| 5th. to 6th | K. South Druiy Lane | 16 | 5 | 21 | 45 | 63 | 41 |
| C. Coram Street | 21 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 43 | |
| 7th. | E. Church Lane | 22 | 5 | 27 | 65 | 80 | 52 |
| 8th. | G. Short's Gardens | 36 | 8 | 44 | 67 | 68 | 66 |
| 9 th. | F. Dudley Street | 43 | 11 | 54 | 46 | 88 | 71 |
| 10th. | H. Horth DruryLane | 40 | 7 | 47 | 124 | 63 | 93 |
| Workhouse Inmates. | 19 | .. | 19 | .. | .. | .. | |
| Total District | 237 | 52 | 289 | 50 | 52 | 53 | |
Church-lane district, here again, holds a much better position in 1859 than in
former years. The neighbourhoods of Dudley-street and Short's Gardens still
stand very low on the lists, but they are again, as in 1857, outdone by the northern
Drury-lane locality, where many of the deaths from consumption are referable to the
circumstance of very many common lodging-houses being situated here.
Diseases of the Respiratory organs form another group permanently in excess
in St. Giles's. Their distribution over its ten subdivisions in 1859 is shown below.
Here, again, the streets around Dudley-street and those between Hoiborn and Great
Queen-street vie with each other in mortality.
The Ten Sub-divisions in the order of their mortality from Diseases of the Lungs.
| Order of Sequence, 1859. | Locality of | Deaths from Lung Diseases— 1859. | Acute Lung Disease, per 10,000. | Total Lung Disease, Per 10,000 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acute. | Chronic. | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | ||
| 1st. 2nd. & 3rd. | L. Lincolnninn Fids | 3 | 1 | 16 | 39 | 12 | 32 | 52 | 16 |
| B. Russell Square | 5 | 3 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 21 | 28 | 17 | |
| D. Bloomsbury Sq. | 6 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 25 | 18 | |
| 4th. | A. Bedford Square | 5 | 3 | 20 | 39 | 13 | 42 | 48 | 22 |
| 5th. 6th. & 7th. | C. Coram Street | 7 | 11 | 22 | 29 | 11 | 39 | 45 | 29 |
| G. Short's Gardens | 17 | 5 | 29 | 24 | 26 | 47 | 44 | 33 | |
| E. Church Lane | 8 | 10 | 33 | 32 | 15 | 70 | 47 | 35 | |
| 8th. | K. Sthrn Drury Lane | 15 | 12 | 23 | 43 | 29 | 49 | 63 | 52 |
| 9th. | F. Dudley Street | 27 | 19 | 54 | 58 | 35 | 76 | 83 | 60 |
| 10th. | H. Nthrn Drury-lane | 22 | 15 | 44 | 35 | 43 | 79 | 63 | 72 |
| Workhouse Inmates | 2 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Total District | 117 | 105 | 30 | 33 | 21 | 55 | 53 | 40 | |