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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APPENDIX.
Note .—The Death-rate of each year has been computed afresh by the Registrar General, from corrected Data. The figures of this fable differ therefore from those of former reports, and should be substituted for them.
Death-rate in London, in groups of Districts, and in St. Giles. | Mean of Ten years 1847-1856. | Mean of Five years 1855-1859. | Death-rate of last Seven years, each corrected to 356¼ days. | ||||||
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1857. | 1858. | 1859. | 1860. | 1861. | 1862. | 1863. | |||
London | 27.02 | 23.08 | 22.41 | 23.90 | 22.69 | 22.49 | 23.18 | 23.56 | 24.52 |
West Districts.— (Kensington, Chelsea, St. George, Hanover-square, Westminster, St. Martin, St. James.) | 23.27 | 21.89 | 21.19 | 22.37 | 21.44 | 22.17 | 22.42 | 22.30 | 23.24 |
North Districts.— (Marylebone, Hampstead, Pancras, Islington, Hackney) | 22.67 | 22.08 | 21.50 | 22.88 | 21.67 | 21.17 | 22.33 | 22.00 | 23.81 |
Central Districts— (St. Giles, Strand, Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East London, West London, London City) | 25.10 | 24.10 | 23.77 | 24.46 | 24.14 | 23.34 | 25.03 | 25.83 | 26.64 |
East Districts.— (Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George East, Stepney, Poplar) | 26.43 | 24.63 | 24.63 | 25.78 | 23.95 | 24.08 | 24.02 | 25.98 | 26.65 |
South Districts.— St. Saviour, St. Olave, Bermondsey, St. George Southwark, Newington, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Camberwell, Rotherhithe, Greenwich, Lewisham.) | 26.81 | 22.90 | 21.49 | 23.96 | 22.60 | 22.14 | 22.79 | 22.68 | 23.37 |
St. Giles.— Registered mortality | 26.89 | 25.49 | 26.60 | 24.84 | 24.82 | 24.97 | 25.81 | 27.49 | 27.34 |
Corrected for Hospitals | — | 26.61 | 28.20 | 25.91 | 26.13 | 26.33 | 27.12 | 28.99 | 28.64 |