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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 Fourth 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 | The Quarter ending Jan. 1, 1859, 13 weeks | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zymotic Mortality Six Diseases | Fever | Diarrhoea | Scarlatina, &c. | Total Mortality | Births | Excess of Births over Deaths to Dec. 31 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||||
| Dense Population. | St. James | FEET 58 | 164 | 36,406 36,406 | £ | 222 | 84.0 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 161 | .. | 49 | |||||||
| High Level. Wealthy. | 12 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. | Hampstead | 350 | 2252 | 11,986 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 9.5 | 18 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 65 | .. | 47 | |
| Medium Circumstances. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13,048 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. High level. | St. Giles | 68 | 245 | 54,214 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 221 | 37.0 | 27 | 81 | 9 | 3 | 31 | 374 | .. | 26 | |
| Medium Circumstances. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparse Population. Low Level. | Camberwell | 4 | 4342 | 54,214 54,667 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 94.0 | 24 | 100 | 10 | 3 | 43 | 409 | .. | 100 | |
| Poor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 62.021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dense Population. Low Level. | St. George's, Southwark.— | M. | F. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kent-rd. Distriot | 1 | 105 | 18,126 | .. | .. | .. | 173 | 132.5 | .. | 32 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 123 | 81 | 86 | .. | |||||
| Poor. | Borough-rd. ,, | 2 | 65 | 15,862 | .. | .. | .. | 244 | .. | 25 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 135 | 82 | 74 | .. | |||||
| London-rd. „ | 0 | 112 | 17,836 | .. | .. | .. | 159 | .. | 33 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 117 | 84 | 91 | .. | ||||||
| 247 | 251 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 282 | 51,824 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 184 | .. | 30 | 90 | 9 | 11 | 44 | 375 | 4,98 | 122 | ||
| 55,376 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ,, | Newington | 1 | 624 | 64,816 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 104 | 122.5 | 26 | 114 | 4 | 12 | 69 | 505 | .. | 247 | |
| 71,164 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ,, | Bermondsey | 0 | 688 | 48,128 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 70 | 159.5 | 28 | 88 | 7 | 2 | 42 | 336 | .. | 225 | |
| Dense Population. | Bethnal Green | 38 | 760 | 54,628 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medium Height. Very Poor. | 90,193 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 119 | 55.0 | 26 | 163 | 35 | 13 | 74 | 623 | .. | 324 | ||||
| 98,791 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| All London | .. | .. | 2,362,236 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 9 | .. | .. | 35 | 3825 | 576 | 234 | 1814 | .. | .. | 4990 | ||
| 2,667,917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||