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St George (Southwark) 1864

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

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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.

TABLE No. 6 Continued.

Small PoxMeaslesScarlatinaDiptheriaHooping CoughTyphusDiarrnœa ana CholeraDentition, Tabes, Hydrocephalus, &c.Small PoxMeaslesScarlatinaDiptheriaHooping CoughTyphusDiarrnèa ana CholeraDentition, Tabes, Hydrocephalus, &c.
Hunter Street...11...13...3Price's Buildings.....................1
Hatfield Place.....................1
Herbert's Buildings.....................1
Herbert's Place...............2......Queen Street112
Hayles Street...............1...1
Hunter's Court.....................2
Rephidim Street...1......1...11
Red Cross Street1.........1211
Jonathan Place.....................1Richmond Street......1...2.........
Joiner Street1...2......4...1Regent Street...............1......
John's Street............21......Revels Row..................1...
John's Place............1.........
John's Terrace...............1...1
Jane's Place............1.........Southwark Bridge Road............21...1
Suffolk Street...1...221...2
St. George's Place...11............2
Kent Street11......3215St. George's Road.....................1
Kent Road (old)......2...2...34Staple Street...1...1............
King's Place......1......1......Surrey Square...1..................
King's Bench Walk...............112Surrey Street......4...11...4
King Street......2...1......1Surrey Buildings......4...............
King's Court......1...............St. Stephen's Place...12............1
Kell Street..................3...Stanage Court1.....................
Swan place122...............
Stanford Place.........1............
London Road...21............1
London Street......2...1.........
Lant Street...............2...2Townsend Street............1...1...
Little Lant Street1............111Thomas Court............21......
Lansdowne Place...3......1124Thomas Street..................11
Lombard Street......1...1...2...Temple Street............1...11
Lant Place...1..................Tower Street1............2...1
Layton's Buildings..................1...Tennis Place.....................1
Lambeth Road............11......
Union Street, B, R.2...9......1...l
Martin Street2............3......Union Street, L, R.............2...l2
Mint Street4...21...2...1
Marshall Street......1............1
Melina Place............1......1Valentine Place.....................1
Mina Road......12............
Moreton Street.........11......1
Mason Street12...............1Webber Row1.........41......
Market Street.....................2Warner Street...1......1...11
Mash Court...............1......"William Street, K. R.......1.........1...
William Street, B. R.......1............3
Warwick Street......4......212
Nelson Place......1............Waterloo Road1...1......1......
Noels Court...1.........12...Westcott Street...21.........12
New Court..................1...Wycombe Place1...............12
New Alley.....................1White Street...11...............
New Street...............2...1Willmott's Buildings...............1l...
White Horse Yard..................11
Wellington Place......1......1...2
Oakley Street1.....................Webber Street.....................2
Westminster Road.....................2
West Square...............1......
Potier Street............l1...2West Place.....................1
Pitt Street...231l...12Workhouse...11...14666
Providence Place......1.........1...
Paul's Yard............1...1...
Princes Place......2...............York Street, K. R....2......2...1...
Princes Street...............2......York Street, L. R.......2............1
Paragon Place.....................1

I have annually given a table of those streets in which deaths from Zymotic diseases
have taken place, as well as from scrofulous affections of children. Upon examination
it will be found that these deaths are not distributed amongst them as we might have
anticipated. In streets where noxious Trades are carried on, those more especially
connected with the decomposition of animal matter, we should have felt confident of meeting
with a large mortality; and that in them, Zymotic diseases would manifest themselves in their
most malignant and fatal type. But this is not so. In Green Street, where nearly all these