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St George (Southwark) 1866

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

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1865—6.
The second Table gives the number of Births and Deaths which have occurred in each
Quarter during five years. It shews at a glance the variation that takes place in similar
quarters of the year in these two great events of human life.

Table: TABLE No. 3.

TABLE No. 3.

SUB-DISTRICTS.NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 1865—6.POPULATION IN 1861.
Kent Road42719652
borough Road59116668
London Road46419190
TOTAL148355510

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The third Table points out the number of deaths which has taken place in the year in
each subdistrict; and also their relativo healthiness. The Kent Road sub-district presents the
lowest death rate, 22 persons dying in 1000 living; whilst 24 die in 1000 living in the London
Road, and 35 in the Borough Road sub-districts. The latter is doubtless the most overcrowded
of tho three, and probably also the poorest, but a considerable share of this large
excess is due to the deaths which take place in the workhouse, and to which the others
contribute.

Table: TABLE No. 4.

TABLE No. 4.

1861—21862—31863—41864 — 51865—6
First QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFjrst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotalFirst QuarterSecond QuarterThird QuarterFourth QuarterTotal
Small Pox314261028462442131214182136
Measles125513762G84730125653161319553917831
Scarlatina913401779172523228717292323922520303782104628
Diptheria3122812251326
Hooping Cough40101215771291231612698165918921166175152148
diarrhoea63812GG2516743283315662828354412636485
Typhus1025314848199128819253336113373626291281110121851