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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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6 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
The amount of Rain was much less than the Average of the Quarter for many
years, which, acoording to Howard, 1s 7.998; in the corresponding Quarter
last year 5'45. (Greenwich Observatory.)
Meteorology, except as above, from Dr. Thomson's reports taken at St.
Thomas's Hospital,
TABLE 3.—
| Week | DEATHS, from local weekly returns | Barometer | Thermometer (Averages) | Wind | Rain in inohes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Zymotio Disease | Diarrhoea | Chest Diseases | Total Mortality | Average of the weeks for 10 years | corrected Mean | of Highest | of Lowest | Dew Point. | |||||
| OF YEAR | OF QUARTER | ||||||||||||
| Phthisis | All other | ||||||||||||
| 40 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 26.0 | 29.798 | 62.7 | 48.5 | 44.2 | s.w. | 0.47 |
| 41. | 2 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 26.7 | 29.912 | 60.1 | 47.3 | 44.6 | s.w. | 0.13 |
| 42 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 25.1 | 29.805 | 59.4 | 50.9 | 48.1 | N.E. | 0.32 |
| 43 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 26.4 | 30.234 | 57.4 | 45.1 | 42.2 | N.E. | 0.24 |
| 44 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 27.2 | 30.335 | 51.8 | 39.7 | 38.3 | E. & N.E. | 0.03 |
| 45 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 25.3 | 30.210 | 46.6 | 35.9 | 34.2 | E. & N.E. | 0.00 |
| 46 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 31 | 26.5 | 29.635 | 42.4 | 33.3 | 30.3 | N.E. | 0.00 |
| 47 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 46 | 31.4 | 29.708 | 44.8 | 33.3 | 35.7 | N.E. & S.S.E. | 0.22 |
| 48 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 27.5 | 29.564 | 52.8 | 42.6 | 42.8 | Variable | 0.39 |
| 49 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 25 | 30.8 | 30.227 | 43.8 | 35.9 | 35.9 | Variable | 0.00 |
| 50 | 11. | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 25.5 | 29.995 | 44.0 | 36.1 | 36.9 | Variable | 0.30 |
| 51 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 23.9 | 29.549 | 51*1 | 41.5 | 41.8 | S.W. | 0.79 |
| 52. | 13 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 32.4 | 29.882 | 47.1 | 38.3 | 38.9 | W.& N.W. | 0.22 |
| 97 | 11 | 38 | 102 | 375 | 354.7 | 29.911 | 51.0 | 40.6 | 39.5 | 3.11 | |||
| 140 | |||||||||||||