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 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. | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
West | 2.206 | 2.144 | 2.212 | 2.829 | 2.252 | 2.097 |
North | 2.208 | 2.113 | 2.236 | 2.422 | 2.295 | 2.069 |
Central | 2.415 | 2.365 | 2.497 | 2.703 | 2.441 | 2.193 |
East | 2.429 | 2.309 | 2.655 | 2.994 | 2.519 | 2.286 |
South | 2.410 | 2.296 | 2.542 | 3.516 | 2.469 | 2.211 |
London | 2.340 | 2.247 | 2.441 | 2.938 | 2.406 | 2.178 |
Camberwell | 2.20 | 2.0 | 2.37 | 3.35 | 2.24 | 1.9 |
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. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dulwich | 1.29 | 1.11 | .18 | 14. |
Camberwell | 1.73 | 1.12 | .61 | 35. |
Peckham | 2.04 | 1.30 | .74 | 36. |
St, George's | 1.97 | 1.22 | .75 | 38. |