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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
The facts of your death-rate are briefly as follows :—
Table III.
Sub-District.
No. of Deaths.
Death-rate per 1,000.
Deaths under 1 year
to 1,000 Births.
1894.
1895.
1894.
1895.
1894.
1895.
Borough Road
609
558
36.1
33.9
248
247
London Road
396
421
18.6
20.4
169
178
Kent Road
430
453
16.8
20.6
217
199
Whole Parish
1,435
1,432
23.9
23.7
211
208
London
77,051
86,938
17.7
19.7
143
155
33 Large Towns
189,007
218,166
18.1
20.6
152
182
It is clear then that the death.rate of St. George's, Southwark, is abnormally
high. One is naturally led to enquire whether a further analysis of facts and figure;
will throw any light upon this unenviable state of affairs.
On comparing the average death-rate in the Three Sub-districts for the years
1892-3-4-5, with that of 1895, we find :—
Table IV.
Sub-District.
Death-rate per 1,000.
1892-3-4-5
1895
Borough Road
33.9
33.0
London Road
20.4
19.8
Kent Road
20.6
19.1
Hence we see the heavy death-rate in the Borough Road Sub-district has some
what decreased. It is a suggestive fact that during the past year the mortality in
the Borough Road has been 13.2 over that of the London Road, and 139 over that
of the Kent Road areas. The period over which these figures extend—four years,—
and the actual number of deaths are both too small to allow of drawing any
absolutely sound conclusions. Nevertheless, it may be noticed that:—
(1) The mortality of the Borough Road Sub-district is 4.2 higher than
that of Liverpool for the year 1895. The latter place had the highest
death-rate of the thirty-three large English towns.
(2) That of the London Road Sub-district, is almost the same as that for
the thirty-three large provincial towns, and only slightly higher than that
of the whole of London.
(3) That of the Kent Road Sub-district is below the figure returned for the
whole of London, and for the thirty-three great towns.
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