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
City of London 1848
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1848-9
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TABLE II.
Comparative View of Mortality during the last
Quarter, terminating September 29.
Total number of Deaths, 1396. In the following Table the several Sub-Districts are arranged according to the Registrar-General's estimate of their ordinary mortality per thousand of the population. His estimate is shown in the first column of figures (A), where it has been reduced to an average rate per quarter for the sate of comparison with the second column (B). The latter gives the several rates of mortality per thousand during the last quarter, and shows in what degree they were accelerated by epidemic causes.
| A. | B. | |
|---|---|---|
| City of London Union, North-West Sub-District | 4.75 | 5.70 |
| City of London Union, South-East Sub-District | 5.25 | 7.38 |
| City of London Union, South Sub-District | 6.00 | 7.40 |
| City of London Union, North-East Sub-District | 6.00 | 6.17 |
| City of London Union, South-West Sub-District | 6.50 | 17.59 |
| West London Union, North Sub-District | 6.75 | 13.80 |
| West London Union, South Sub-District | 6.75 | 18.68 |
| East London Union, St. Botolph Sub-District | 6.75 | 10.24 |
| East London Union, Cripplegate Sub-District | 7.75 | 11.94 |
| City of London, in aggregate | 6.07 | 11.13 |
| Minimum Suburban Rate | 2.75 | 2.75 |
*In making the calculations on which, these Tables are founded, I hare
reckoned the Workhouse-Population and Workhouse-Deaths of each Union
as forming part of the aggregate-population and aggregate-mortality for
such Union respectively; and in proceeding to calculate the District-Mortality,
I have distributed among the several Districts the population and the
mortality of their Union Workhouses, apportioning these in the ratio of the
District-Population, so as to prevent the high Workhouse-Mortality from
telling unjustly against the District in which the building happens to be
situated.
Hospital deaths have been distributed according to the residences of the
patients, so that the North Division of the West London Union (in which
St. Bartholomew's Hospital is situated) now retains only its just proportion
of deaths.