Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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90
Total number Treated.
Admitted by letters 3,912
Relieved without letters 1,530
Total 5,442
Since the opening of the Dispensary in 1801, 311,650
patients have received the benefits of this Institution.
Model Buildings tenanted by the Working Classes.
I.—Buildings belonging to the Peabody Donation Fund.
Secretary, Mr. J. Crouch, 64, Queen St., Cheapside, E.C.
A.—THE GREAT WILD STREET BLOCK.
Resident Superintendent, Mr. Manship.
In 1889 this block was occupied by 1,435 persons, 13
more than in the previous year; of these 269 were children
under 5 years of age. There were 67 births, corresponding
to the high rate of 46.6 per 1,000, and a rate 20.3 higher
than that of the whole district. The 23 deaths included
8 at King's College, and one at the Children's Hospital, and
equalled a rate of 16.0 per 1,000 inhabitants of the buildings.
There were 7 deaths from zymotic diseases, viz., diphtheria
4, measles 1, and diarrhoea 2, or a zymotic rate of 4.8
per 1,000. The 15 deaths of children under 5 years of age
equalled an infantile death-rate of 10.4 per 1,000.
The following table carried forward from last year shows the several rates for the seven years 1883-9.
Great Wild Street Block. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | Average for seven years 1883-9. |
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Birth-rate | 46.4 | 46.0 | 53.8 | 43.8 | 44.3 | 41.4 | 46.6 | 46.0 |
Death-rate | 32.2 | 22.6 | 24.0 | 21.5 | 15.7 | 14.7 | 16.0 | 20.9 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 7.0 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 8.3 | 6.1 | 1.4 | 4.8 | 5.2 |