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St Giles (Camden) 1865

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

Published
1866
Pages
26
Tables
17

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17 tables in this report

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    Death-rate per 10,000* in St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts.
    districts.1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.1863.1864.1865.
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    MORTALITY IN 1865.
    Districts.Population, 1865.REGISTERED MORTALITY.Column A. Column B. (see Note.*)Total Mortality in 1865 corrected for Cols. A. & B.Districts.
    1st Quarter, 13 Weeks.2nd Quarter, 13 Weeks.3rd Quarter, 13 Weeks.4th Quarter, 13 Weeks.Whole Year, 52 Weeks.
    Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 10,000.(add)( subtract.)Actual number.per 10,000.
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    Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in Saint Giles's. Whole Year, 1865, (52 Weeks.)
    Classes.Classes and Orders of Disease.London.St. Giles's, Population 54,00.0.
    Population. 2,993,513Estimated Quota.*Actual Registered Mortality.Corrected for Deaths in Hosptls.
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    Death-rate per 1000 in Sub-Districts.*
    DISTRICTS.1857.1858.1859.1860.186l.1862.1863.1864.1865.
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    The following table of deaths represent the relative prevalence in sub-districts of the more important members of the zymotic class of diseases. Deaths in hospitals are here included, so far as the place is known from whence the patients were brought, and deaths in the Infants' Home are excluded.
    Population 1861.DEATHS IN SUB-DISTRICT FROM
    Small-pox.Measles.ScarlatinaDiphtheria.Whooping Cough.Various Fevers.Diarrhœa.
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    Further detail as to the localization of epidemics appears to be requisite only in the case of fever. Dividing the district into the ten localities that have usually been employed in these reports when accurate consideration of locality was needed, and distinguishing fevers, so far as may be done, into typhus, typhoid, and undescribed fevers, the following figures are obtained:—
    Locality of Death.Population, 1861.From "typhus.""Typhoid."Undescribed Fevers.
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    Cases of Disease and Death, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1865, and its Four Quarters.
    Cases occurring.—Within Walls of Workhouse, (Infirmary and Inmates.)Among Out- Patients attending at Workhouse.Among Patients visited at their own homes.
    In Quarters of the YearFirst 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 Bloomslury Dispensary, 1865.
    Quarter ending.Physician's Cases.Surgeon's cases.CasualtiesTotal.
    Admitd.Visited at home.Died.Admitd.Visited at home.Died.Admitd.Visited at homeDied.
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    House Improvements in St. Giles's effected under the superintendence of Inspector Webb between March 25th, 1865, and March 25th, 1866.
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    TABLE I.— Mortality per Thousand in London, in the Divisions of London, and in St. Giles's ; in 1865, and in preceding Years.
    Death-rate in London, in groups of Districts, and in St. Giles.Mean of Ten years 1847-1856.Mean of Five years 1855-1859.Mean of Five years 1860-64.Death-rate of last Nine years, each corrected to 365¼ days.
    1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.1863.1864.1865.
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    TABLE II.— Deaths in Hospitals among Patients brought from St. Giles and neighbouring District, 1865.
    Districts.Total ascertained Deaths in London Hospitals.Kings College Hospital, (Strand).Middlesex Hospital (Marylebone).Charing Cross Hospital (St. Martins)University College Hospital (St. Pancras)Children's Hospital (Holborn.)St. Bartholomew's Hospital (W. London)Royal Free Hospital (St. Pancras).London Fever Hospital (Islington).Infants' Home, Bloomsbury.St. Mary's Hospital (Paddington).Westminster Hospital (Westminster.)Deaths in Hospital out of the district.
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    TABLE III.— Causes of Death in the St. Giles's in 1865, with the Ages at Death. (Correction is here made for deaths in Hospitals and in the Infants' Home.
    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 and upwards.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE III.— Diseases in Orders —(continued.)
    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 and upwards.
    Males.Females.| Total.
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    TABLE III.— Diseases in Orders —(continued )
    Class.Causes op Death.At all Ages.Under 2 years2 and under 5.5 and under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 25.25 and under 35.35 and under 45.4 5 and under 55.55 and under 65.65 and under 75.75 and under 85.85 and upwards.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE IV.— Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London, and St. Giles's. Four Quarters , 1865.
    Class.Classes and Orders of Disease.First Quarter. 13 weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter. 13 weeks.
    London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.
    Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.Actual Number.
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    TABLE V.— Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1865. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's. After correction for duplicate and omitted entries.
    Deaths in Sub-Districts. [Population 1861,]First Quarter. 13 weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.1 hird Quarter 13 weeksFourth Quarter. 13 weeks.Whole Year, 1865. 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
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    TABLE VI.— Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1865. Sub-Districts of St. Giles.
    Births in Sub-Districts.First Quarter. 13 weeksSecond Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth. Quarter. 13 weeksWhole Year, 1865. 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children