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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) 1859
[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, 1858. 5
TABLE 2,—
| Conditions Of Locality | Parish | Height above Trinity High Water Mark | Area in Acres | Population 1851 In small figures, calculated to June 1857) | Each Person represents Annual Value Reg. General's Report | Each Person pays to Relief Poor Pop. 1851, rates 1856 | Same Rate as St.Geo's, Southwark, each should pay | Density. Persons to an Acre | Mortality from Cholera, to every 10,000 Inhabitants, Mean of 1840 & 1854 | Deaths to 1000 Living 1841—50 | Zymotic Mortality Six Diseases | The Quarter ending July 3, 1858, 13 weeks | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fever | Diarrhoea | Total Mortality | Births | Excess of Births over Deaths to June 30 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |||||
| Dense Population. | St. James | feet | 164 | 36,406 36,406 | £ | d. | s. | 222 | 84.0 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 171 | . . | 48 | |||||
| High Level. | 58 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Wealthy. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. | Hampstead | 350 | 2252 | 11,986 13,048 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 9.5 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 64 | . . | 25 | |
| High Level. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium Circumstances. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. | St. Giles | 68 | 245 | 54,214 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 221 | 370 | 27 | 37 | 5 | 9 | 298 | . . | 88 | |
| High Level. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium Circumstances. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. | Camberwell | 4 | 4342 | 54,667 62,021 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 9.40 | 24 | 47 | 6 | 3 | 307 | .. | 199 | |
| Low Level. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Poor. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. | St. George's, Southwark,— | M. | F. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Low Level. | Kent-rd. District | 1 | 105 | 18.126 | .. | .. | .. | 173 | 132.5 | .. | 34 | 2 | 2 | 91 | 85 | 84 | .. | ||||
| Poor. | Borough-rd. ,, | 65 | 15,862 | .. | .. | .. | 244 | .. | 20 | 0 | 3 | 118 | 86 | 75 | .. | ||||||
| London-rd. „ | 0 | 112 | 17,836 | .. | .. | . . | 159 | . . | 13 | 1 | 2 | 87 | 72 | 63 | .. | ||||||
| 243 | 222 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 282 | 51,824 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 184 | .. | 30 | 67 | 3 | 7 | 296 | 465 | 162 | ||
| „ | Newington | 1 | 624 | 64,816 71,164 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 104 | 122.5 | 26 | 85 | 6 | 5 | 393 | . . | 377 | |
| Dense Population. | Bermondsey | 0 | 688 | 48,128 54,628 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 70 | 159.5 | 28 | 129 | 9 | 7 | 354 | . . | 164 | |
| Medium Height. | Bethnal Green | 38 | 760 | 90,193 98,791 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 119 | 55.0 | 26 | 127 | 19 | 14 | 583 | . . | 382 | |
| Very Poor. ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| All London | 2,362,236 2,667,917 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | .. | .. | 25 | .. | .. | .. | .. | . . | 7047 | ||||