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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) 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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4 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southward.
TABLE 2.—
| Conditions of Locality | Parish | Height above Trinity High Water Mark | Area in Acres | Population, 1851 | Each Person represents Annual Value Reg. General's Report | Each Person pays to Relief of Poor Pop. 1851, rates 1856 | Same Rate as St. Geo.'s Southwark, each should pay | Density. Persons to an Acre | Average Annual Mortality in 10,000, 1841 to 1850 | Mortality from Cholera, to every 10,000 Inhabitants. Mean of 1840 & 1854 | Deaths to 1000 Living 1841—50 | The Quarter ending April 3, 1858, 13 weeks | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zymotic Mortality Six Diseases | Fever | Diarrhoea | Total Mortality | Births | Excess of Births over Deaths to Mar. 31 | |||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. High Level. Wealthy. | St. James | FEET 58 | 164 | 36,406 | £ | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | 222 | 206 | 840 | 22 | 16 | l | 0 | 218 | ... | 62 | |
| 12 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. High Level.Medium Circumstances. | Hampstead | 350 | 2252 | 11,986 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 178 | 9.5 | 18 | 9 | l | 0 | 64 | ... | 52 | |
| Dense Population. High Level. Medium Circumstances. | St. Giles | 68 | 245 | 54,214 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 221 | 252 | 37.0 | 27 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 386 | ... | 89 | |
| Sparse Population. Low Level. | Camberwell | 4 | 4342 | 54,667 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 231 | 94.0 | 24 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 365 | ... | 228 | |
| M. | F. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. Low Level. Poor. | Kent-rd. District | 1 | 105 | 18,126 | ... | ... | ... | 173 | 252 | 132.5 | ... | 12 | 2 | 0 | ...... | 104 | 80 | ... | ||||
| Borough-rd. „ | 2 | 65 | 15,862 | ... | ... | ... | 244 | 347 | ... | 16 | 3 | 2 | ... | 92 | 81 | ... | ||||||
| London-rd. „ | 0 | 112 | 17,836 | ... | ... | ... | 159 | 250 | ... | 14 | 1 | 0 | ... | 93 | 90 | ... | ||||||
| 289 | 251 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ... | |||||||||||||||||||||
| „ | Newington | 1 | 624 | 64,816 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 104 | 247 | 122.5 | 26 | 45 | 5 | 4 | 438 | ... | 338 | |
| „ | Bermondsey | 0 | 688 | 48,128 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 70 | 268 | 159.5 | 28 | 52 | 8 | 3 | 298 | ... | 288 | |
| Dense Population. Medium Height. Very Poor. | Betlmal Green | 38 | 760 | 90,193 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 119 | 242 | 55.0 | 26 | 125 | 25 | 8 | 633 | ... | 467 | |
| All London | ... | ... | 2,480,347 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | ... | ... | ... | 25 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6506 | ||