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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red, leaving for the rest of the Southern districts a total
cholera-mortality of 428 only.
The following is a list of the Southern districts of
London, with their respective total choleraic and diarrhceal
mortalities.
*
Estimated
Population
in middle of
1866.
Deaths
from
Cholera.
Deaths
from
Diarrhoea
Total.
Proportion of
combined
Deaths in
10.000
Population.
St. Saviour's
36422
31
37
68
18.7
St Olave's
18914
20
17
37
19.6
Bermondsey
64310
33
75
108
16.8
St. George's
57498
38
39
77
13.4
Newington
92680
26
45
71
7.7
Lambeth
174904
113
158
271
15.5
Wandsworth
82979
40
59
99
11.9
Camberwell
81818
46
54
100
12.2
Rotherhithe
28767
26
13
39
13.6
Greenwich
144836
282
91
373
25.7
Lewiham
90420
55
34
89
9.8
The above figures shew that while, as regards mortality
from cholera, Newington holds very decidedly the lowest
place, and Greenwich even more decidedly the highest
*The estimates of population, which are for the middle of 1866, are takeB
from the Registrar General's returns.