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St Giles (Camden) 1879

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

Published
1880
Pages
60
Tables
48

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  • Page 7
    The following are the amounts paid by this District to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the last thirteen years:-
    Year.Amount.
    £S.d.
  • Page 8
    The amounts paid to the London School Board since it was constituted are as follow:-
    Year.Amount.
    £s.d.
  • Page 12
    THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE SAINT GILES DISTRICT. Abstract of Receipts and Payments of the above Board for GENERAL PURPOSES, from 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 14
    Summary of General Account, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 15
    Abstract of Receipts and Payments for SEWERS, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.
  • Page 15
    Summary Sewers Account, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 16
    Abstract of Receipts and Payments on the FOUNDLING ESTATE ACCOUNT, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.
  • Page 16
    Summary of Foundling Estate Account, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 17
    Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Ledge Folic.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.
  • Page 17
    Summary of Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 17
    Metropolitan Consolidated Bate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.
    The Joint Vestry of St. Giles and Bloomsbury, under Precept of 25th February, 1879707,65000Metropolitan Board of Works3048,166187
    Overdrawn at Bankers, 25thMarch, 1880516187
    £3,166187£3,166187
  • Page 17
    Summary of Metropolitan Consolidated Bate Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 18
    Coal Yard and Goldsmiths' Alley Improvement Account, from the 25th day of March, 1879, to the 25th day of March, 1880.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Legder Folio.£s.d.
  • Page 18
    Summary of Coal Yard and Goldsmiths' Alley Improvement Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 19
    General Account.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 19
    Sewer Account.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20
    FOUNDLING ESTATE ACCOUNT. Proportion of Bond Debt on the Foundling Estate Account transferred to this Board, by order of the Metropolitan Board of Works, of the 1st day of August, 1856, £6,746.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20
    Metropolitan Consolidated Rate Account.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20
    Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20
    Coal Yard and Goldsmiths Alley Improvement Account.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 22
    New Pavings. Carriageways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net Cost.
  • Page 22
    The following macadamized roadways were recoated with broken granite, steam rollers being used to consolidate the granite after it was spread.
  • Page 23
    The cost of the street cleansing for the year ending 25th March, 1880, was as follows:—
    £8.d.
  • Page 24
    The water for this purpose (including that used for street washing) was 2,319,000 gallons.
    £s.d.
  • Page 25
    List of Public Urinals in the St. Giles District.
    Bainbridge Street5 compartmentsWater supply laid on.
  • Page 26
    The following is a list of the Contracts entered into by the Board and in force up to the 25th day of March, 1880:—
    Name and Address of the Contractor.Nature of Contract.Term of Contract.
  • Page 30
    Marriages and Marriage-rate. The marriages in 1879 were 382, viz.:—
    Name of Building.Denomination.Number of Marriages.
  • Page 31
    Showing the Birth-bate in St. Giles and its Sob-Districts in 1879, and the Eatio of Births to Population.
    Sub-Districts.Population.Births.Ratio of Births to Population.Rate per 1,000.Average Birth Rate per 1,000 for 10 years 1869—1878.
  • Page 32
    The Number of Deaths in St. Giles Workhouse, the British Lying-in-Hospital, and the Infants' Home , 1879.
    Sub-Districts, &c.Workhouse.Lying-in Hospital.Infants' Home.Total Number of Deaths.
  • Page 33
    Number of Deaths of Parishioners belonging to St. Giles District, in Public Institutions situate out of the District.
    Sub-Distbicts.Hospital belonging to the Metropolitan Asylum District Board.Hospital of the Metropolitan Sick Asylum.Special Hospitals (non-pauper) for Infectious Diseases.General Hospitals.Total
    Stockwell.Cleveland Street.London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road.London Small-Pox Hospital, Highgate.University College ^Royal Free.King's College.Middlesex.Charing Cross.St. Thomas's.
  • Page 33
    Table showing the Death-rate in St. Giles and its Sub-Districts in 1879, and the Ratio of Deaths to Population.
    Sub-Districts.Population.Deaths.Ratio of Deaths to Population.Rate per 1,000.Average Death-rate for 10 years, 1869—78.
  • Page 35
    Tub Number of New Cases treated at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1879.
    Quarter ending—Physician's Cases.Surgeon's Cases.Casualties aboutTotal.
    Total No. under Treatment.Visited at Home.Died.Total No. under | Trcatraent.Visited at Home.Died.Total No. under Treatment.Visited at Home.Died.
  • Page 37
    Return respecting Vaccination op Children whose Births were Registered during the Year. (For the period from July 1, 1878, to June 30, 1879.)
    Registration Sub-Districts comprised in Vaccination Officer's District.Number of Births returned in Birth List Sheets.Number of these Births duly entered in Columns 10,11, and 13 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets), viz.:Number of these Births which are not entered in the Vaccination Register on account of—
    Col. 10.Column 11.CoL 13.Postponement by Medical Certificate.Removed to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to Places unknown, or which cannot be reached ; and Cases not having been found.Cases not accounted for in either of the foregoing Columns.
    Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Successful Vaccination.Had Small Pox.Dead. Unvacci-nated.
  • Page 46
    The following were the verdicts returned by the juries:—
    Cause of Death.Total.
  • Page 47
    Slaughter Houses.—On the 28th October, the Middlesex Magistrates, at their Petty Sessions, held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, granted licences for slaughter houses to the following butchers, who had previously carried out the works ordered by your Sanitary Committee, and which works were supervised by your Surveyor.
    Locality.Licensees.
  • Page 49
    TABLE I. Estimated Population, 1879, at the Middle of the Year, and in Ten previous Years ; Number of Inhabited Houses ; Births, Deaths and Marriages (gross Numbers).
    Year.Estimated Population.Number of Houses.Registered Births.Deaths.Marriages.
  • Page 50
    TABLE II. Showing Bieth and Death Rate, Deaths of Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions, 1879, and Ten previous Yeabs.
    The Year.Births per 1,000 of the Population.Death-rate per 1,000 living.Deaths of Children under 1 year per cent. to Total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 1 year per cent. to Births.Deaths of Children under 5 years per cent. to Total Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions outside the District.Deaths in Public Institutions inside the District.
  • Page 51
    TABLE III. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1879. (The Deaths in Public Institutions of Non-Residents being excluded.)
    causes of death.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwardsTotal under 5.Grand Total.Sub-Districts.
    St. George, BloomsbusySt. Giies, South,St. Giles, North.
  • Page 52
    TABLE III.— continued.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Total under 5.Grand Total.Sub-Districts.
    St. George, Bloomabury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.
  • Page 53
    TABLE IV. Showing Mortality from certain Classes of Diseases and Proportions to Population and to 1,000 Deaths, 1879, viz.:—
    Diseases.Total Deaths.Deaths per 1,000 of Population.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths.
  • Page 54
    TABLE V.—Showing the Number of Deaths in the Ten Years, 1869 to 1878, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases, and the Number in 1879, etc.
    dlsea.se.1869.1870.1871.1872.1873.1874.1875.1876.1877.1878.Annual average of 10 years, 1869 to 1878.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1869 to 1878.1879.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1879.
  • Page 55
    TABLE VI. Report of the Sanitary Works, &c., in 1879, carried out under the Superintendence of the Sanitary Inspectors.
    Sub-District.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, North.St. Giles, South.Total.
  • Page 56
    TABLE VII. Disinfecting Chamber. Showing the List of Articles Disinfected in Hot-Air Chamber during the Year 1879.
  • Page 57
    TABLE VIII. Registered Births in 53 Weeks of 1879. Sub-Districts of St. Giles.
    Sub-Districts.First Quarter. 13 weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter. 14 weeks.Whole Year, 1879. 53 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children.
  • Page 57
    Registered Deaths in 53 Weeks of 1879. Sub-Districts of St. Giles.
    Sub-Districts. (Population, 1871.)First Quarter. 13weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter. 14 weeks.Whole Year, 1879. 53 weeks.
    M.FM.FM.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
  • Page 58
    The Marriage-rate per 1,000 in St. Giles District from 1875 to 1879.
    Sub-Districts.18751876187718781879
  • Page 58
    The Birth-rate per 1,000 in St. Giles District and Sub-Districts from 1858 to 1879. TABLE IX.
    Sub-Districts.1858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876187718781879
  • Page 58
    The Death-rate per 1,000 in St. Giles District and Sub-Districts from 1858 to 1879.
    Sub-Districts.1858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876187718781879