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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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6 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Soutkimrk.
TABLE 4.—
| DISEASES | District Mortality | NEW CASES OF SICKNESS DURING THE QUARTER | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated present Population, 55,000 | Out and In-door Poor | INSTITUTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kent Road | London Road, | Boro' Road, | Workhouse. | Kent Road, Mr. Babbage | London Road, Mr. Wakem | Bcro' Road, Mr. Llewellyn | Workhouse, Mr. Brown | Royal South London Dispensary | Bethlehem Hospital, &c. | 15 Acres Av. Inmts. 600 | Queen's Bench Prison | School for Indigent Blind Acres, 3.3.10 Av. In.,&c., 175 | Asylum for Deaf Sc Dumb 4 Acres Av. Inmtg. 340 | Magdalen Hospital 3£ Acres Av. Inmts. 130 | Sickness Total | ||||||
| Ppn. 1851, 18,120 | Ppn. 1851, 17,836 | Ppn. 1851, 15,862 | Average Inmates, 450 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | Included in the Boro' Road Dis-trict-- | - | - | - | - | - | All probably Mental Diseases. | - | Returns refused. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Chicken Pox | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | ||||
| Measles | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | I | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |||||
| Scarlatina, Malignant Sore Throat | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | ||||||
| Hooping | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 10 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | ||||||
| Diarrhoea | 22 | 14 | 20 | 3 | 172 | 106 | 210 | 11 | 133 | 39 | 4 | - | - | - | 682 | ||||||
| Dysentery | - | 2 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | |||||||||||
| Chopra | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | I | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | |||||
| Fever | 4 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 27 | 3 | - | - | I | - | - | - | - | 97 | |||||||
| Ague | - | - | - | 1 | I | 1 | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | ||||||
| Rheumatic Fever | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - \ | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |||||
| Rheumatism | - | - | - | 10 | 11 | 7 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | |||||
| Erysipelas | - | * 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 9 | |||||||
| Pyemia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Carbuncle | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |||||
| Chronic Lung Diseases, (except) Phthisis) | - | - | 1 | - | 21 | 10 | 17 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49 | ||||
| Phthisis} | 14 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 ! | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | |||||
| Acute Lung Diseases | Bronchitis & Catarrh | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 6 | - | 25 | - | 6 | - | - | - | 78 | |||
| Pleurisy | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | ||||||
| Group | - | 1 | - | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | - | - | — | — | - | - | 2 | ||||
| Hydrocephalus, Tabes, Scrophula, Spasmodic Croup, Convulsions of Infants | W | 15 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | |||||
| Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic | 18 | 14 | 25 | 14 | 236 | 155 | 293 | CO | 833 | 51 | 22 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 1666 | ||||
| Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | ||||||
| Sudden Deaths | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Mental Disease | - 1 | - | - | 2 | ' | 1 | 12 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | |||||
| TOTAL | 93 | 79 | 104 | 27 | 556 | 1 348 | 538 | 119 | 1000 | 96 | - | 57 | i 12 | 11 | - | - | -- | 2787 | |||