London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Camberwell 1856

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell, St. Giles]

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TABLE V.

Average Mortality of London, its five groups of Districts and Camberwell for six years; allowance has been made in every year since 1851, for increase of population. Taken chiefly from the Registrar General's Abstract for 1856.

Districts.185118521853185418551856
West2.2062.1442.2122.8292.2522.097
North2.2082.1132.2362.4222.2952.069
Central2.4152.3652.4972.7032.4412.193
East2.4292.3092.6552.9942.5192.286
South2.4102.2962.5423.5162.4692.211
London2.3402.2472.4412.9382.4062.178
Camberwell2.202.02.373.352.241.9

West Districts—Kensington, Chelsea, St. George Hanover Square, Westminster,
St. Martin's, St. James Westminster.
North Ditto—Marylebone, Hampstead, Pancras, Islington, Hackney.
Central Ditto—St. Giles, Strand, Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East
London, West London, City.
East Ditto—Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George's in the
East, Stepney, Poplar.
South Ditto—St. Saviour, St. Olave, Bermondsey, St. George, Newington,
Lambeth, Wandsworth, Camberwell, Rotherhithe, Greenwich, Lewisham.
TABLE VI.

Exhibiting the relative number of Deaths per Cent. between Children under five years of age, and persons upwards of five years of age.

Total Deaths per Cent.Deaths oyer 5 per Cent.Deaths under 5 per Cent.Per centage of Deaths under 5 to total Deaths.
Dulwich1.291.11.1814.
Camberwell1.731.12.6135.
Peckham2.041.30.7436.
St, George's1.971.22.7538.