[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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MORTALITY IN 1860.

Districts.	Population.			REGISTERED MORTALITY.										Column A. Column B. (see Note.)		Total Mortality n 1859, corrected for Cols, A and B.		Districts.
	Population.			1st Quarter, 13 Weeks.		2nd Quarter 13 Weeks.		3rd Quarter, 13 Weeks.		4th Quarter, 13 Weeks.		Whole year, 52 Weeks.		Column A. Column B. (see Note.)		Total Mortality n 1859, corrected for Cols, A and B.
	1851.	1861,	Estimated for 1860.	Actual number	per 10,000.	Actual number	per 10,000.	Actual number	P^er ! 10,000.	Actual number	per 10,000.	Actual number	per 10,000.	(add)	(subtract)	Actual nnmber	per 10,000.

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Death.rate per 10,000 1 in St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts.

DISTRICTS.	1857.	1858.	1859.	1860.

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Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in St. Giles's. Whole Year, 1860.

Classes.	classes and orders of disease.	London. Population: 2,758,954	St. Giles's. Population 54,063.
Classes.	classes and orders of disease.	London. Population: 2,758,954	Estimated Quota. 1÷51.1.	Actual Registered Mortality.	Corrected for Deaths in Hospit.

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Death-rate per 10,000, in sub-districts.

DISTRICTS.	1857	1858.	1859	1860.

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Deaths from all Causes in Ten Localities, distinguishing those of Children.— 1860.

locality of	Inhabited Area in Acres,	Houses inhabited 1851.	Population 1851.	deaths from all causes, 1860.				deaths of children.		Deaths at other Ages.
locality of	Inhabited Area in Acres,	Houses inhabited 1851.	Population 1851.	In Houses.	In Workhouse.	In Hospitals.	Total.	Under two years.	Two to five years.	Deaths at other Ages.

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Causes of Death in the Ten Localities, 1860.

LOCALITY OF	Total Zymotic Diseases	Small pox.	ZYMOTIC DISEASES.							TUBERCULOUS DISEASES.			DISEASES OF THE LUNGS.				Violent Deaths including those from in temperance.	Deaths from all other causes.
LOCALITY OF	Total Zymotic Diseases	Small pox.	Measles	Scarlet Fever.	Diph-theritis.	Whooping Cough.	Fever.	Diarrhoea.	Other Zymotic Diseases	Total. Tuberculous Diseases	Con-sumptn. Scrofula and Tabes.	Water on the Brain.	Total Lung Diseases	Chronic Bronchitis and Asthma,	Acute Bronchitis.	Inflammation of the Lungs.	Violent Deaths including those from in temperance.	Deaths from all other causes.

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Births in Sub-districts.

SUB-DISTRICTS.	1857.	1858.	1859.	1860.

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Causes of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse, in the Four Quarters of 1860

Cases occurring	Within Walls of Workhouse (Infirmary and Inmates)										Among Out-patients attending at Workhouse.					Among Patients visited at their own Homes.
Quarters of the Year.	First Quarter.		Second Quarter.		Third Quarter.		Fourth Quarter.		Whole Year.		First.	Second	Third.	Fourth	Whole Year.	First Quarter.		Second Quarter.		Third Quarter.		Fourth Quarter.		Whole Year.
Cases.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases		No Deaths.‡			New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.	New Cases.	Deaths.

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New Cases treated at Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1860.

Quarter ending	physician's cases.			surgeon's cases.			total.
Quarter ending	Admitd.	Visited at home.	Died.	Admitd.	Visited at home.	Died.	Admitd.	Visited at home.	Died.

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House improvements in the several Localities of St. Giles's, effected under the superintendence of Inspector Webb, between March 25th, 1860, and March 25th, 1861.

House improvements in Localities.		A. Around Bedford Square.	B. Around Russell Square.	C. Around Coram Street.	D. Around Bloomsbury-sq.	E. Around Church Lane.	F. Around Dudley Street.	G. Around Short's Gardens	H. Around North ern part of Drury Lane.	K. Around South ern part of Drury Lane.	L. Around Lincoln's Inn Fields.	Whole District of St. Giles.

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TABLE I.—Mortality per Thousand in London, in the Divisions of London, and in St. Giles's in 1860, and in preceding Years. Note .—The numbers are computed on an estimate of the population of the period named, and comparison made throughout from the printed returns of the Registrar-General.

	Mean of Ten years. 1847 to 1857.	Death-rate of three last years, each corrected to 365¼ days.
	Mean of Ten years. 1847 to 1857.	1857	1858	1859	1860

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TABLE II.—Deaths in Hospitals among Patients brought from St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts 1860.

Districts.	Total ascertained Deaths in London Hospitals.	King's College Hospital (Strand).	Middlesex Hospital (Marylebone)	Charing Cross Hosptl. (St. Martin).	University College Hosptl, (St. Pancras)	Children's Hospital, (Holborn).	St. Bartholomew's Hospital, (W. London)	Royal Free Hospital (St. Pancras).	London Fever Hospitl. (Islington).	Westminster Hospital (Westminster).	St. Mary's Hospital (Paddington).	Deaths in Hospitals out of the district.

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TABLE III.—Causes of Deaths in St. Giles's, in 1860, with the Ages at Death. DISEASES IN CLASSES.

Class.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	At all ages.			Under 2 years.	2 and under 5.	5 and under 10.	10 and under 20.	20 and under 25.	25 ana under 35.	35 and under 45.	45 and under 55.	55 and under 65.	65 and under 75.	75 and under 85.	85 and upwards.
Class.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	Male.	Female.	Total.	Under 2 years.	2 and under 5.	5 and under 10.	10 and under 20.	20 and under 25.	25 ana under 35.	35 and under 45.	45 and under 55.	55 and under 65.	65 and under 75.	75 and under 85.	85 and upwards.

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TABLE III.—(continued). DISEASES IN ORDERS.

Class.	CAUSES OF DEATH.	At all ages.			Under 2 years	2 and under 5.	5 and under 10.	10 and under 20.	20 and under 25.	25 and under 35.	35 and under 45.	45 and under 55.	55 and under 65.	65 and under 75.	75 and under 85.	85 & upward.
		Male.	Female.	Total.

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TABLE III.—(Continued.) DISEASES IN ORDERS. (Continued.J

Class.	CAUSES OF DEATH.		At all ages.			Under 2 years.	2 and under 5.	5 and under 10.	10 and under 20.	20 and under 25.	25 and under 35.	35 and under 45.	45 and under 55.	55 and under 65.	65 and under 75.	75 and under 85.	85& up\vards
			Male.	Female.	Total.

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TABLE IV—Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London, and in St. Giles's. Four Quarters, 1860.

Class.	Classes and Orders or Disease.	First Quarter			Second Quarter.			Third Quarter.			Fourth Quarter.
		London.	St. Giles.		London.	St. Giles.		London.	St. Giles.		London.	St. Giles.
		London.	Estimated Quota.	Actual Number.	London.	Estimated Quota.	Actual Number.	London.	Estimated Quota.	Actual Number.	London.	Estimated Quota.	Actual Number.

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TABLE V.—Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1860. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's Here Nine Deaths registered a second time are omitted.

Deaths in SUb-Districts.	First Quarter.		Second Quarter.		Third Quarter.		Fourth Quarter.		Whole Year, 1860.

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TABLE VI.—Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1860. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's

Births in Sub-Districts.	First Quarter.		Second Quarter.		Third Quarter.		Fourth Quarter.		Whole Year. 1860.
Births in Sub-Districts.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	Total Children.

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TABLE VII. Estimate of the population of the three sub-districts of St. Giles's, in the four years 1857-1860. The year 1861 from the census.

sub-district of	1857.	1858.	1659.	1860.	1861. Census.

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I am much indebted to Mr. Bennett for the kindness with which he furnished me with a complete copy of his small-pox register, an abstract of which, for the half-year during which the epidemic prevailed in South St. Giles's (from October 1359 to March 31, 1860), is subjoined, arranged in two periods—before and after the house to house vaccination

date.	CASES OF SMALL-POX ADMITTED.
	In Vaccinated Persons.				In Unvaccinated Persons.
	Confluent.	Discrete	Total,	Deaths.	Confluent.	Discrete.	Total.	Deaths.

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APPENDIX No. IX. Houses and population of the Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's. From the census of 1861. (Ascertained since the completion of this Report.)

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MORTALITY IN 1860.

Death.rate per 10,000 1 in St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts.

Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in St. Giles's. Whole Year, 1860.

Death-rate per 10,000, in sub-districts.

Deaths from all Causes in Ten Localities, distinguishing those of Children.— 1860.

Causes of Death in the Ten Localities, 1860.

Births in Sub-districts.

Causes of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse, in the Four Quarters of 1860

New Cases treated at Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1860.

House improvements in the several Localities of St. Giles's, effected under the superintendence of Inspector Webb, between March 25th, 1860, and March 25th, 1861.

TABLE I.—Mortality per Thousand in London, in the Divisions of London, and in St. Giles's in 1860, and in preceding Years. Note .—The numbers are computed on an estimate of the population of the period named, and comparison made throughout from the printed returns of the Registrar-General.

TABLE II.—Deaths in Hospitals among Patients brought from St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts 1860.

TABLE III.—Causes of Deaths in St. Giles's, in 1860, with the Ages at Death. DISEASES IN CLASSES.

TABLE III.—(continued). DISEASES IN ORDERS.

TABLE III.—(Continued.) DISEASES IN ORDERS. (Continued.J

TABLE IV—Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London, and in St. Giles's. Four Quarters, 1860.

TABLE V.—Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1860. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's Here Nine Deaths registered a second time are omitted.

TABLE VI.—Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1860. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's

TABLE VII. Estimate of the population of the three sub-districts of St. Giles's, in the four years 1857-1860. The year 1861 from the census.

APPENDIX No. IX. Houses and population of the Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's. From the census of 1861. (Ascertained since the completion of this Report.)