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St George (Southwark) 1863

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

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20 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

Table: TABLE No. 7 Continued.

TABLE No. 7 Continued.

Small PoxMeaslesScarlatinaDiptheriaHooping CoughTyphusDiarrhoea and CholeraTabes, Hydrocephalus, Dentition, &c.Small PoxMeaslesScarlatinaDiptheriaHooping CoughTyphusDiarrhoea and CholeraTabes, Hydrocepha-lus,Dentition, &c.
Laurie Terrace...............1......St. George's Road......3......1...2
St. George's Row.....................1
St. George's Market.....................1
Mount Row...............1......St. George's Square1.....................
Marshall Street......2...............St. George's Circus..................2...
Market Street..................12St. George's Place............1.........
Melina Place...2.........111Suffolk Street...111......35
Mint Street1i1............2Suffolk Street, Little1.........1.........
Martin Street............11...3Swan Buildings......1............1
Mason Street.....................2Swan Street......1.........1...
Moreton Street1..................1Surrey Street2...1...11...3
May-pole Alley...1...............1Surrey Buildings..................11
Mermaid Court......1...............Southwark Bridge Road...5...1...1......
Mina Road...1..................South Sea Court...1...............1
Mitre Court1.....................School for Indigent Blind......1...............
Market Street.....................1James's Terrraec............1.........
Nelson Place.....................1Tower Street11......2......4
New Alley.....................1Townsend Street............1......1
New Street...1......2...12Thomas Street.....................2
New Court...............1......Temple Street...............2......
Noel Street1.....................
Northampton Row3.........1.........Union Street, L.R....11......2...3
Union Street, B.R,......2...2123
Obelisk Buildings.....................2Upper Mill...1...............1
Ockley Street.....................2
Ockley Court.....................1
Valentine Row......1...1.........
Valentine Place............3......1
Paragon Place............1.........
Princes Street...............1......Waterloo Road..................11
Pitt Street, K.R................11...
Pitt Street, L.R.......3......1...1Warwick Street...12............1
Pitt Court...............1......William Street, K.R....1...............1
Pitt's Place, K.R.............1......1William Street, B.R......................2
Westcott'Street......1...11...1
Providence Place.....................1Webber Row...1......1......4
peter Street1...............11Wellington Street.....................2
Peter Street.....................1Wellington Place.....................1
Wycombe Place............1112
Wycombe court............22...1
Queen Street, B.R.1...1...2.........White Street.........1......12
Willmott's Buildings......1............2
Revel's Row...............1...1Walker Street.....................1
Red Cross Street..................2Warner Street11..................
Red Cross Court......11............Workhouse............3636111
Richmond Street..................1
Russell Place............1l...2York Street, K.R.3.........1......1
Regent Street...1..................York Street, L.R....11.........11
Rodney Street.....................1York Buildinegs..................1...
Rephedim Street......1...1.........York Place........................

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I shall conclude this report, with a few remarks upon Fever, a matter which has daily
claimed our serious regard. Epidemic visitations are shrouded in mystery; we do not
know, why at one time, they should be present; and at another time absent; nor why, one
kind should be prevalent and another in abeyance. These visitations it may never be in
our power to hinder; but the numbers now sacrificed, may be greatly decreased.
This district, alike with other districts in London, has suffered greatly from Fever. In
the first quarter 48 deaths were registered, precisely the same number that were registered
in the year of 1861-2: and as many as 9 persons have died in the week. You may judge
of its mortality by comparing the number of deaths that occurred in 1860, with that of
1862; in the former year 20 deaths were registered, and the latter 107: during the same
period in London the numbers were 1392, and 3635. The mortality however in 1860 was