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St Giles (Camden) 1879

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

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Table: Number of Deaths of Parishioners belonging to St. Giles District, in Public Institutions situate out of the District.

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.
St. George, Bloomsbury...7......3353......21
St. Giles, South224......2222612...70
St. Giles, North215......213119144
Entire District446......763020211135

Table: Table showing the Death-rate in St. Giles and its Sub-Districts in 1879, and the Ratio of Deaths to Population.

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.
St. George, Bloomsbury17,8433201 in 55717.918.8
St. Giles, South19,0895221 in 36 527 3292
St. Giles, North16,4973651 in 45-122123-5
Whole District53,4291,2071 in 44.222.524.52

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This death-rate is slightly higher than in 1878, but is 2 0 below
the decennial average.
The registered births exceeded the registered deaths during the
year by 521.
In the United Kingdom 707,379 deaths were registered in 1879,
equal to a rate of 20 7 per 1,000.
In England and Wales the death rate was equal to 210 per 1,000,
and 0.8 below the average rate in the ten preceding years.
Deaths of Infants.
Though 1,640 children were born during the year, only 1,394 survived,
246 having died before attaining the age of one year. This is equal to
a death in every 6 6 of all registered births, and 1 death in every 4.5
of all registered deaths.
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