Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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TABLE 2.—
Conditions of Locality | Parish | Height above Trinity! High Water Mark j | 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 | The Quarter ending Oct. 2, 1858, 13 weeks | ||||||||||
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Zymotic Mortality Six Diseases | Fever | Diarrhoea | Total Moitality | Births | Excess of Births over Deaths to Sept. 30 | ||||||||||||||||
1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |||||
Dense Population. Hisrh Level. Wealthy. | St. James | 164 | 36,406 | f | s | 222 | 84 .0 | 22 | 27 | 2 | 11 | 126 | .. | 80 | |||||||
58 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
36,406 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sparse Population. High Level. Medium Circumstances, | Hampstead | 350 | 2252 | 11,986 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 9.5 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 72 | .. | 38 | |
13,048 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dense Population. High Level. Medium Circumstances. | St. Giles | 68 | 245 | 54,214 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 221 | 37.0 | 27 | 77 | 11 | 20 | 286 | .. | 133 | |
54,214 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sparse Population . Low Level. Poor. | Camberwell | 4 | 4342 | 54,667 62,021 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13| | 94.0 | 24 | | 105 | 7 | 19 | 356 | ... | 143 | |
St George's, Southwark,— | | | M. | f. | ||||||||||||||||||
Dense Populution | Kent-rd. District | 1 | 105 | 18,126 | .. | .. | .. | 178 | .. | 59 | 8 | 13 | .. | 60 | 76 | ||||||
Low Level. | Borough-rd. „ | 2 | 65 | 15,862 | .. | .. | 244 | .. | 50 | 2 | 24 | .. | 78 | 56 | |||||||
Poor. | London-rd. „ | 0 | 112 | 17,836 | .. | .. | .. | 159 | .. | 34 | 5 | 12 | .. | 73 | 61 | , . | |||||
211 | 206 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 0 | 282 | 51,824 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 184 | .. | 30 | 143 | 15 | 49 | 369 | 55 | |||
„ | Newington | 1 | 624 | 55,3 76 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 104 | 122.5 | 142 | 11 | 35 | 428 | .. | 231 | ||
64,816 71,164 | |||||||||||||||||||||
„ | Bermondsey | 0 | 688 | 48,128 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 70 | 159.5 | 28 | 134 | 12 | 38 | 31 | .. | 168 | |
Dense Population. | Fethnal Green | 38 | 760 | 54,628 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 119 | 55.0 | 26 | 209 | 28 | 69 | 603 | .. | 300 | |
Medium Height. | 90,193 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Very Poor. | 98,791 | ||||||||||||||||||||
All London | .. | 2,362,236 2,667,917 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | .. | .. | 25 | 4163 | 495 | 1391 | 14305 | .. | .. |