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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Giles (Camberwell) 1861

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

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Table: Table V. —Shewing the Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell in Seasons during the year, 1861.

Table V. —Shewing the Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell in Seasons during the year, 1861.

At what Ages ?From what Causes ?
TOTAL.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 Diar-rhœa (not of Infants) and Cholera.Scarlet Fever and Cynanche Maligna.Small Pox.Erysipelas, Pyæmia, and Puerperal Fever.Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of Infants under three years of age.Measles, Hooping-cough, and Croup.Hydrocephalus and Convulsions of Infancy.Phthisis and other Tuber-cluuar diseases.Other diseases, chiefly Chronic.
M.F.M.F.
First Quarter191196387138198715222731497127828...141224744187
Second Quarter179170349122151013232632292554227...101226382958156
Third Quarter1431933361377831927202937492843101...52232144150
Fourth Quarter170177347124852243024233869226410...545191752167
General total683736141952149312581105103112149243992593828164102114198660

Table: Table VI. —Shewing the Mortality due to Zymotic Diseases in 1861.

Table VI. —Shewing the Mortality due to Zymotic Diseases in 1861.

Fever.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaSmall Pox.Hooping Cough.Measles.Total.
Dulwich............2...2
Camberwell1036...21141
Peckham9616...26158
St. George's643223644
Total2513252728145