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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) 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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The Ten Localities- their Order of Mortality from zymotic Diseases.
(Miasmatic order) 1861.
| Order of Sequence, 1861. | Locality of | Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases in 1861. | Zymotic mortality per 10,000. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All miasmatic Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheritis. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus, &c.Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Other miasme. Diseases. | |||
| Best 1st. | A. Bed ford-square | 4 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 10 |
| 2nd. | B. Russell-square | 15 | — | — | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 27 |
| 3rd | L. Lincoln's Inn-field | 8 | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 35 |
| 4th-6th | H. Northern Drury-lane | 28 | — | — | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 54 |
| _ D. Bloomsbury-square. | 29 | — | — | 9 | — | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 55 | |
| K. Southern Drury-lane. | 29 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 57 | |
| 7th-9th. | C. Coram-street | 43 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 70 |
| G. Short's-gardens | 44 | — | 6 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 70 | |
| F. Dudley-street | 64 | — | 8 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 71 | |
| Worst 10th | E. Church-lane | 41 | — | 11 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 88 |
| Workhouse Inmates | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | ||
| Whole District | 307 | 1 | 32 | 68 | 14 | 54 | 45 | 34 | 59 | 57 | |
than the rest. This fever, begining in 1861, but still prevailing in June, 1862,
will be considered with more advantage in a future report.
Consumptive or Tubercular diseases, another of the important groups
which always swell unduly the death-rate of St. Giles's, were distributed
through the ten sub-divisions of the district as follows :—
The Ten Localities- their order Mortality from Tubercular Diseases, 1861.
| Order of Sequence, 1861. | Locality of | Deaths from Tubercular Diseases. | Tubercular Mortality per 10,000. | |
| From Consumption, Tabes, and Scrofula, | From Water-on-the-Brain. | |||
| Best lst-2nd. | A. Bedford-square | 7 | 18 | |
| B. Russell-square | 9 | 1 | 18 | |
| 3rd | D. Bloomsbury-square | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| 4th-5th, | E. Church-lane | 17 | 3 | 43 |
| C. Coram-street | 23 | 5 | 46 | |
| 6th | L. Lincoln's Inn-fields | 11 | 1 | 53 |
| 7th | H. Northern Drury-lane | 26 | 6 | 62 |
| 8th-9th. | F. Dudley-street | 51 | 12 | 70 |
| G. Short's-gardens | 41 | 4 | 71 | |
| Worst 10th | K. Southern Drury-lane | 38 | 4 | 83 |
| Workhonse Inmates | 13 | 1 | — | |
| Whole District | 213 | 42 | 53 | |
The neighbourhoods of Coram Street and Great Wild Street are here
found to be those where a notable rise in consumptive mortality has taken
place. The parts about Church Lane and the northern district of Drury
Lane have had fewer deaths than usual from these complaints. Although in
1861 these diseases were distributed more equally than usual, there was vet
the ratio of 4½ to 1 between the worst and the best districts in regard of their
mortality from consumption.
Diseases of the Breathing Organs, other than consumption of the lungs,
constitute another great order of diseases from which St. Giles's loses a
disproportionate number of its residents. In some of the ten localities they
produced four or five times as many deaths as in others.