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St Giles (Camden) 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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1,000, 15 below the decennial average, but an increase of
14 over the preceding year; this increase was caused by
the heavy fatality from measles.
But this rate, as is seen, is a trifle lower than that of
the metropolis.
Small-Pox (London).—The fatal cases of small-pox,
which had been 471 and 2,371, in 1880 and 1881, declined
last year to 431, and were fewer than in any year since
1875. In St. Giles there were 3 deaths during 1882 (2 at
Stockwell and 1 at Homerton Hospitals), against 10 for
the previous year, the decennial average being 5-0. There
were 31 cases removed to hospitals of the Asylum Board;
8 of the patients had not been vaccinated. In 1881 there
were no less than 106 cases in the district, of which 71
were removed to hospital.
No deaths from the disease were registered in the
District.
The patients resided, previous to removal to hospital, in the following places, all in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields:—
| Caroline Mews | 1 |
| Compton Street, New | 3 |
| Crown Street | 1 |
| Drury Lane | 3 |
| Dudley Street | 1 |
| Dyott Street | 1 |
| Edmonton Schools | 2 (children of parishioners) |
| Laurence Street | 1 |
| Macklin Street | 2 |
| Queen Street | 1 |
| Queen Street, Great | 1 |
| Carried forward | 17 |