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St George (Southwark) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the second Quarter, 1857.
TABLE 5.—Cases of Sickness among the Out-door Poor.
| Weeks | Kent Road, Mr. Babbage | London Road, Mr. Wakem | Borough Road, Mr. Llewellyn | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | |||
| 1 | 45 | 45 | 90 | 31 | 34 | 65 | 68 | 35 | 103 | ||
| 2 | 43 | 23 | 66 | 40 | 17 | 57 | 65 | 35 | 100 | ||
| 3 | 38 | 25 | 63 | 31 | 29 | 60 | 68 | 37 | 105 | ||
| 4 | 44 | 26 | 70 | 40 | 26 | 66 | 85 | 36 | 121 | ||
| 5 | 35 | 17 | 52 | 29 | 18 | 47 | 70 | 35 | 105 | ||
| 6 | 31 | 14 | 45 | 28 | 23 | 51 | 72 | 39 | 111 | ||
| 7 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 30 | 17 | 47 | 62 | 47 | 109 | ||
| 8 | 29 | 21 | 50 | 42 | 13 | 55 | 66 | 34 | 100 | ||
| 9 | 23 | 21 | 44 | 28 | 21 | 49 | 52 | 28 | 80 | ||
| 10 | 33 | 38 | 71 | 24 | 32 | 56 | 44 | 43 | 87 | ||
| 11 | 39 | 16 | 55 | 26 | 17 | 43 | 65 | 29 | 94 | ||
| 12 | 33 | 23 | 56 | 18 | 28 | 46 | 44 | 22 | 66 | ||
| 13 | 31 | 36 | 67 | 21 | 29 | 50 | 31 | 55 | 86 | ||
| TOTAL | 454 | 335 | 789 | 388 | 304 | 692 | 792 | 475 | 1267 | ||
Grand Total—Old Cases, 1634, New Cases, 1114 = 2748.
N.B.—It should be here remarked, that "Old Cases" means only those cases of illness that remain on the hooks more than one week, and consequently involve repetitions of the same case.