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St Giles (Camberwell) 1859

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

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Table: Table III. Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell, during the year terminating December, 1859.

Table III. Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell, during the year terminating December, 1859.

In what Localities?At what Ages?From what Causes?
M.F.M. F.0 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3030 to 4040 to 5050 to 6060 to 7070 and over.Violence,Privation,Poison and Premature Birth.Fever.Dysentery and Acute Diarrhoea (not of Infants) and Cholera.Scarlet Fever and Cynanche Maligna.Small PoxErysipelas, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever.Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of Infants under three years.Measles, Hooping-cough, and CroupHydrocephalus and Convulsions of Infancy.Phthisis and other Tubercular diseases.Other diseases, chiefly Chronic.
First Quarter1692063751291428264431244057217...225535282749176
Second Quarter137146283981546242334242233199• • •224320122336135
Third Quarter16519335816412541419263426542273171296121643139
Fourth Quarter17018135110317681327313250641981212532142354172
General total641726136749458172677113122114138208813148212151836689182622

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N.B.—The Registrar General's division of the
Parish of Camberwell, with the Population
of each sub-District at the last
census is as follows:
The entire Parish of Camberwell,
Population 54,667,
Comprised in four sub-Districts.
DULWICH, - Population 1632
CAMBERWELL, „ 17,742 with "Workhouse
PECKHAM, - „ 19,444
ST. GEOEGKE'S, „ 15,849