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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
Camberwell 1865
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell, St. Giles]
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TABLE I.
| Names of Sub-Districts. | Population in 1861. | BIRTHS. | ACCORDING TO AGE. | DEATHS. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACCORDING TO DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | MF | M | F | MF | Under One year. | From One to 5. | From 5 to 10. | From 10 to 20. | From 20 to 30 | From 30 to 40. | From 40 to 50. | From 50 to 60. | From 60 to 70. | From 70 to 80. | From 80 to 90. | From 90upwds | Violence, Poison, and Accident. | Premature Birth. | Child-birth. | Erysip las, Pyæmia, &c. | Pneumonia, Bronchitis, &c | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Cholera. | Hooping Cough. | Measles. | Croup. | Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Fever. | Smill Pox. | Hydrocephalus, and Convulsions of Infancy. | Tubercular Diseases. | Other Diseases chiefly Chronic. | ||||||
| Puerperal Fever. | Other Causes. | Under 5 years. | Over 5 years. | Under 5 years. | Over 5 years. | Phthisis. | Others. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1723 | 22 | 27 | 49 | 15 | 16 | 31 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | l | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | l | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | l | 0 | 12 | |
| 21,297 | 401 | 390 | 791 | 325 | 324 | 649 | 138 | 78 | 17 | 14 | 41 | 42 | 75 | 55 | 68 | 92 | 28 | 1 | 12 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 56 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 31 | 72 | 26 | 283 | |
| 28,135 | 599 | 575 | 1174 | 355 | 351 | 706 | 209 | 136 | 26 | 27 | 38 | 31 | 43 | 49 | 57 | 54 | 33 | 3 | 13 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 63 | 42 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 80 | 80 | 28 | 193 | |
| 20,333 | 536 | 486 | 1022 | 265 | 256 | 521 | 136 | 104 | 23 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 33 | 37 | 46 | 44 | 24 | 1 | 12 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 38 | 33 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 52 | 50 | 21 | 175 | |
| 71,488 | 1558 | 1478 | 3036 | 960 | 947 | 1907 | 491 | 323 | 66 | 63 | 108 | 101 | 154 | 142 | 173 | 192 | 88 | 6 | 38 | 141 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 90 | 160 | 95 | 17 | 6 | 52 | 39 | 31 | 14 | 55 | 31 | 12 | 168 | 203 | 75 | 663 | |
M F MF
* The Deaths returned for the Sub- district of Camberwell comprise Deaths in Workhouse 46 74 120
Deaths in Two Lunatic Asylums 48 32 80