Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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—1895.
TABLE IX.
Deaths 1892. | Deaths 1893. | Deaths 1894. | Deaths 1895 | |||||
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Diarrhœa | 23 | 43 | 54 | 41 | ||||
Tabes Mesenterica (bowel phthisis) | 22) | 58 | 16 | 37 | 10 | 38 | 27 | 51 |
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus | 20 | 10 | 12 | 10 | ||||
Other Tubercular & Scrofulous Diseases | 16) | 11 | 16 | 14 | ||||
Premature Birth | 24 | 36 | 44 | 39 | ||||
Convulsions | 35 | 41 | 63 | 69 | ||||
Bronchitis | 45 | 50 | 44 | 40 | ||||
Pneumonia | 32 | 24 | 16 | 38 | ||||
Dentition | 21 | 14 | 22 | 35 | ||||
Whooping Cough | 11 | 20 | 29 | 30 | ||||
Suffocation in bed | 11 | 12 | 20 | 16 | ||||
Debility, Atrophy, and Inanition | 42 | 84 | 88 | 69 | ||||
Other cases not specified or ill-defined | 34 | 6 | 8 | 24 | ||||
Total | 336 | 367 | 426 | 452 |
* English.
TABLE X.
Sanitary Area. | Estimated Population middle of 1895. | Persons to an Acre. | Annual rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | |
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Deaths from all Causes. | Deathsfr'm principal Zymotic Diseases | ||||
St. Saviour, Southwark | 26,570 | 132 | 25.6 | 2.8 | 204 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 13,065 | 103 | 24.1 | 2.4 | 209 |
Newington | 119,358 | 185 | 24.1 | 3.3 | 202 |
St. George, Southwark | 60,163 | 211 | 23.7 | 3.8 | 208 |
Bermondsey | 83,861 | 135 | 22.3 | 3.2 | 163 |
Lambeth | 284,883 | 71 | 19.6 | 2.6 | 151 |
Rotherhithe | 40,713 | 53 | 19.2 | 2.7 | 150 |
Greenwich | 175,183 | 49 | 18.9 | 2.7 | 154 |
Camberwell | 252,737 | 54 | 18.3 | 2.5 | 164 |
Woolwich | 42,768 | 37 | 17.4 | 1.7 | 152 |
Battersea | 165,130 | 71 | 17.4 | 2.7 | 175 |
Plumstead | 61,494 | 9 | 15.1 | 2.5 | 133 |
Wandsworth | 185,956 | 18 | 14.8 | 1.3 | 133 |
Lee | 38,832 | 23 | 14.5 | 1.4 | 141 |
Lewisham | 82,410 | 15 | 14.4 | 1.5 | 132 |
London | 4,392,346 | 58.8 | 19.7 | 2.6 | 165 |