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St Giles (Camden) 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Deaths from, diseases of the heart have not been so numerous relatively to the
total mortality within the House, as outside of it; but paralysis, as we
might expect from the age of the inmates, has been much more fatal.
TABLE No. XI.— S hewing the M ortality at different A ges from certain D iseases in the W orkhouse, in 1870.
| Diseases. | Age. | Sex. | Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 yr. | Under 5 yrs. | Under 15 yrs | Under 25 yrs | Under 35 yrs | Under 45 yrs | Under 55 yrs | Under 65 yrs | Under 75 yrs | Under 85 yrs | Over 85 yrs | Total | M. | F. | ||
| Zymotic Diseases . Atrophy & Tu-berculous Dis-eases of Chldn. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||
| Phthsis | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | |||
| Bronchitis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 97 | 8 | 0 | 67 | ||||
| Pneumonia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||
| Disease of Heart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Paralysis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | l6 | |||
| Cancer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | l | 0 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Old Age & Decay. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | l6 | |||
| Other Causes | 12 | 0 | 0 | l | 9 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 56 | |||
| Total | 25 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 33 | 36 | 43 | 48 | 24 | 2 | 254 | | 136 | 118 | 254 |
The Bloomsbury Dispensary. 85. This excellent charity has met the
wants of the district, with an increase of usefulness during the past year.
The large number of 5,353 cases have been admitted, of which 1,171 were
visited at their homes. The advantages which this Institution confers
upon a class of humble persons who, but for the help it renders in their
suffering, might be reduced to apply for parochial relief, cannot be too
highly appreciated. The largest number of cases was admitted in the
spring quarter; the smallest in the winter quarter; the deaths also in the
winter quarter were compartively numerous.
TABLE No. XII.—New Cases treated at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1870.
| Quarter ending- | Physician's Cases. | Surgeon's Cases. | Casualties about | Total. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admitd | Visited at home | Died. | Admitd. | Visited at home | Died. | Admitd | Visited at home | Died. | ||
| Mar. 25 th | 794 | 308 | 38 | 388 | 40 | 3 | 260 | 1442 | 348 | 41 |
| June 24th | 784 | 250 | 25 | 365 | 26 | 0 | 275 | 1424 | 276 | 25 |
| Sept. 29th | 884 | 255 | 24 | 241 | 19 | 1 | 280 | 1405 | 274 | 25 |
| Dec. 25th | 650 | 237 | 33 | 217 | 36 | 0 | 215 | 1082 | 273 | 33 |
| Whole Yr. | 3112 | 1050 | 120 | 1211 | 121 | 4 | 1030 | 5353 | 1171 | 124 |
The British Lying-in Hospital. 86. The death-rate in this Institution,
during the year 1870, has been, I regret to state, higher than usual, and it
has been found necessary to close the wards, for a period, in consequence of
the occurrence of puerperal fever. The number of deliveries was 175; and of
the number of births, 75 Were males and 100 females. The deaths among
the women were 9, and among the children, 15. Of the children, 10 were
males, and 5 females. Two of the males and six of the females were stillborn,
and four of the males and three of the females died from debility.
Of the deaths among the women, 5 occurred from peritonitis, 2 also from
peritonitis after premature delivery, necessitated, in one case by a tumour,
and in the other by deformity, and 2 died from phthisis. Twenty-five of
the patients belonged to St. Giles parish, and one to St. George Bloomsbury,