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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
St George (Southwark) 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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COMPARISON OF POOR RATES IN FOUR LONDON PARISHES.
PARISHES.
All calculated on an average.
Rateable value
of
every House.
Annual value of
House and Shoproom
to each person.
Each person pays
annually to the
support of the Poor.
Taking St. George's
as the standard, to
contribute equally to
the Poor, they
should pay
£
£
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
* Apparently the best mode
of calculating the ciroumstanees
of the people in their respective
localities.
St. George's Southwark
22
3
7
6
8
10
8
10
Mary-le-bone
71
7
10
0
6
11
19
8
St. George's Hanover Square
110
13
3
6
7
11
34
4
Islington
35
5
9
6
3
9
14
8