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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 first Quarter, 1857.
TABLE 5.—Cases of Sickness among the Out-door Poor.
| Weeks | Kent Road, Mr. Babbage | London Road, Mr. Wakem | Borough Road, Mr. Davies | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | Old Cases | New Cases | Total | |
| 1 | 55 | 15 | 70 | 17 | 30 | 47 | 60 | 37 | 97 |
| 2 | 47 | 21 | 68 | 24 | 20 | 44 | 66 | 47 | 103 |
| 3 | 37 | 33 | 70 | 26 | 20 | 46 | 90 | 54 | 144 |
| 4 | 39 | 26 | 65 | 37 | 18 | 65 | 103 | 43 | 146 |
| 5 | 50 | 29 | 79 | 23 | 31 | 54 | 105 | 38 | 143 |
| 6 | 54 | 44 | 98 | 26 | 34 | 60 | 100 | 38 | 138 |
| 7 | 68 | 39 | 107 | 29 | 28 | 67 | 90 | 66 | 156 |
| 8 | 72 | 30 | 102 | 37 | 29 | 66 | 98 | 50 | 148 |
| 9 | 55 | 39 | 94 | 31 | 30 | 61 | 90 | 47 | 137 |
| 10 | 49 | 30 | 79 | 35 | 37 | 72 | 96 | 38 | 134 |
| 11 | 52 | 37 | 89 | 48 | 46 | 94 | 87 | 64 | 151 |
| 12 | 55 | 29 | 84 | 45 | 34 | 79 | 79 | 42 | 121 |
| 13 | 45 | 24 | 69 | 44 | 25 | 69 | 73 | 40 | 113 |
| Total | 678 | 396 | 1074 | 422 | 382 | 804 | 1127 | 604 | 1731 |
Grand Total—Old Cases, 2227, New Cases, 1382, = 3609.
N.B.—It should be here remarked, that "Old Cases" means only those cases of illness that remain on the books more than one week,
and consequently involve repetitions of the same case.
TABLE 6.—State of the Sick Wards in the Workhouse.
| DISEASES | Cases | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | 1 | ... |
| Measles | 1 | ... |
| Scarlatina | ... | ... |
| Hooping Cough | ... | ... |
| Diarrhoea and Dysentery | ... | ... |
| Cholera | ... | ... |
| Fever | ... | ... |
| Erysipelas | ... | ... |
| Puerperal Fever | ... | ... |
| Lung Diseases, except Phthisis | 27 | 19 |
| Phthisis | 5 | 2 |
| Hydrocephalus, Tabes, Scrophula, Spasmodic Croup, Convulsions of Infants | 2 | 3 |
| Mental Disease | 9 | ... |
| Infirmity | 13 | ... |
| Other Diseases, chiefly Chronic | 70 | 17 |
| Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth | 5 | 5 |
| Labors | 24 | ... |
| Itch and uncleanly diseases not included above | ... | ... |
| Total | 157 | 46 |
| Remaining in Sick Wards from preceding Quarter | 127 | |
| Total Sick in Wards during Quarter | 284 |