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St Giles (Camden) 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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previous year, and St. Giles South, having approached very nearly to its
maximum. It is difficult to understand these apparent caprices; for we have
no reason to believe that the sanitary condition of St. Giles North, is very
much better than in preceding years; although that of St. George Bloomsbury
is, I am afraid, getting worse in consequence of the gradual deterioration
of its population in some of its out.lving districts.
TABLE No. V.—Showing the Registered Deaths in each Quarter from Certain Zymotic Diseases, &c.
| Sub.Districts. | Qtrs. | Small Pox | Measles | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough | Fever | Diarrhoea | Violence | Inquests | Public Institutns. including Workhse. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George Blmsbury | 1st | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 2nd | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| 3rd | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 4th | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| St. Giles South | 1st | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 80 |
| 2nd | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 74 | |
| 3rd | 0 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 52 | |
| 4th | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 56 | |
| St. Giles North | 1st | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 2nd | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| 3rd | 2 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
| 4th | 0 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | |
| Totals | 5 | 23 | 103 | 4 | 14 | 27 | 81 | 33 | 96 | 262 |
TABLE VI.—D eath-rate per 1000 in Sub-districts *
| Districts. | 1860. | 1861. | 1862. | 1863. | 1864. | 1865. | 1866. | 1867. | 1868. | 1869. | Average Death-rate of 10 years. | 1870. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George Bloomsbry. | 18.5 | 20.5 | 21.6 | 19.9 | 21.6 | 21.1 | 20.0 | 19'0 | 21.0 | 21.16 | 20.43 | 22.1 |
| St. Giles South | 34.6 | 29.1 | 31.7 | 32.7 | 34.8 | 34.6 | 32.8 | 31.6 | 31.1 | 33.20 | 32.62 | 34.1 |
| St. Giles North | 24.7 | 27.9 | 28.2 | 27.3 | 29.2 | 26.6 | 29.8 | 26.6 | 253 | 29.47 | 27.5 | 24.8 |
| Whole District | 26.2 | 27.0 | 28.9 | 28.5 | 31.1 | 29 6 | 29.0 | 26.9 | 26.8 | 27.94 | 28.19 | 27.3 |
* Correction has been made for the extra length of the registration years 1863 & 1868, and for the
proportion of deaths due to each sub-district among the deaths in the Workhouse and in Hospitals outside
the respective sub-districts.
Rouse Register of Deaths from Zymotic, Tuberculous, and Pulmonary Diseases.
43. The excessive mortality from diseases of the lungs in St. Giles
district prompted me to ascertain, if possible, whether there might be some
local cause for it in the construction or ventilation of houses in certain
situations, or in any other insanitary condition apart from the occupations
and habits of the people. In order to get at this knowledge, it was necessary,
in the first instance, to follow up each death to the house in which it happened.
Ultimately, I determined to make the same investigation for three