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 Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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6 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Soutkwark.
TABLE 4.—Mortality, classified according to Diseases, &c.
ESTIMATED POPULATION, 1854—53,509.
Deaths
Males
142
Total 272
Females
130
Error 4
276
Births
Males
240
Total 454
Females
214
Excess of Births over Deaths 178
Diseases
Districts
Sex
Ages
Kent Koad,
^ 105 acres
1 Boro' Kd. 65 acres.
(including 15
Workhouse deaths)
London Road,
112 acres
Males
Females
Total
Under 1 year
From 1 to 5 years
From 5 to 10 years
Total under 10 years
From 10 to 20 years
From 20 to 30 yeajs
From 30 to 40 years
From 40 to 50 years
From 50 to 60 years
From 60 to 70 years
Over 70 years of age
Population, 1854
18,933
16,208
18,368
Small Pox
• ••
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...
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...
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Measles
l
1
3
3
2
5
...
5
...
5
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Scarlatina
10
...
2
4
8
12
...
8
4
12
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Malignant Sore Throat
Hooping Cough
10
2
8
9
11
20
7
12
1
20
Diarrhoea and Dysentery
2
4
1
6
1
7
6
1
...
7
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Cholera
...
•••
...
...
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Fever
2
2
5
5
4
9
• . .
4
1
5
I
2
I
...
Erysipelas
2,
...
...
...
2
2
2
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• ••
2
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Puerperal Pever
...
...
• ••
...
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Lung Diseases, except Phthisi
24
23
18
40
25
65
17
12
3
32
3
1
5
2
6
14
2
Phthisis
14
10
14
21
17
38
...
2
2
4
2
6
11
9
4
2
...
Hydrocephalus, Tabes, Scrofula, Spas-
modic Croup, and Convulsion of
17
17
16
29
21
50
32
15
3
50
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Other Diseases, chiefly Chroni
9
23
24
22
34
56
3
3
1
7
2
6
3
8
6
8
16
Violence, Privation, Poison,
and Premature Birth
3
1
4
3
5
8
4
1
...
5
...
...
1
...
...
1
1
Total
94
83
95
142
130
272
71
63
15
149
8
15
20
19
17
25
19
Erro
r 4
276