London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1860
Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of Mile End Old Town
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TABLE II.
| wards. | Population as estinaated in1856. | Acres. | Number of Persons to the Acre | deaths, 1859. | Rate ot Deaths per annum to every 1000 persons living. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1stQuarter. | 2stQuarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Total. | |||||||
| m. | f. | m.&F. | |||||||||
| North | 12,188 | 162 | 75 | 74 | 57 | 70 | 79 | 125 | 155 | 280 | 22.9 |
| East | 7,262 | 193 | 37 | 42 | 40 | 37 | 34 | 77 | 76 | 153 | 21. |
| West | 11,712 | 78 | 150 | 70 | 60 | 81 | 82 | 154 | 139 | 293 | 25. |
| Centre | 16,775 | 135 | 124 | 92 | 80 | 110 | 80 | 185 | 177 | 362 | 21.5 |
| South | 13,511 | 113 | 119 | 84 | 70 | 81 | 106 | 168 | 173 | 341 | 25.2 |
| Workhouses | - | - | — | 26 | 19 | 20 | 31 | 38 | 58 | 96 | - |
| Hospitals | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | - |
| Totals | 61,448 | 681 | 390 | 327 | 103 | 413 | 752 | 781 | 1533 | ||
| Mean rate for 1859 | 23.1 | ||||||||||
The mortality, by this table, will be seen to have diminished
in some of the wards, which have been noticed as
having generally an undue proportional number of deaths;
and the whole number of deaths appear to be tolerably
equally distributed according to the ward population.
The rate of mortality in all London was in 1859, 22.29
per 1,000 persons living.
The deaths in the Workhouses are not more numerous
although the occupation of the new buildings has largely
increased the number of persons.
Cases of Fever and Small-pox which as they occurred last
year were sent to the Fever Hospital, are now sent to the
Infirmary of the workhouse. The healthy state of the
workhouse may be still better understood, when it is known
that in addition to nearly 400 adult poor, there are about
200 children in the part of the establishment specially devoted
to them