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St Giles (Camden) 1857

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

Published
1858
Pages
74
Tables
25

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25 tables in this report

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    NEW RIVER WATER.
    Water.Date of taking.Hardness.Solid Impurities.—Grains per Gallon.Chemical.Microscopical. (Mr. Jabez Hogg and myself.)Remarks.
    Temporary.Permanent.Total.Inorganic.Organic.Total.
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    Water.Date of taking.Height of site of Well, above ordnance datum.Depth of Well.Depth of Water in Well, August, 1857.Hardness.Solid Impurities.—Grains per Gallon.Chemical.Microscopical,Presumed stratum reached by the well, and remarks.
    TemporaryPermanentTotal.Inorganic.Organic.Total.
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    in the districts mentioned. As I shall have occasion to institute many comparisons between St. Giles and the surrounding districts, I have thrown the chief facts which I have been able to ascertain, concerning the social peculiarities of each, into a tabular form.
    District.Area in Acres.House to Acre, 1851.Persons to House, 1851.Elevation above High Water mark.Soil.Population.Percentage of residents born in Ireland, 1851.Value of property assessed to county rate, divided by the population, 1857.Average annual value of house, 1843.Pence per £ expended for relief of the poor, 1849.Medical Institutions of the district in which deaths occur.
    1851.Corrected for 1857.
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    The number of inmates in a workhouse, compared with the number of inhabitants of a district, and without certain other considerations, is not a safe guide to the relative amount of pauperism; still, as I shall have occasion to make many comparisons between St. Giles and its neighbours, it will not be amiss to introduce a small table of the numbers of inmates in the various workhouses ; the figures of this may be suggestive to those who are more skilled than myself in the economy of pauperism.
    District.Inmates of Workhouses, 1851.Per 10,000 of the Population.
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    MORTALITY IN 1857.
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    London, 1857. St. Giles, 1857, Registered Mortality.
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    The figures of the same Table VIII. lead to the following arrangement of the ten localities, as to their infantile mortality:—
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    Street.Inhabitants from Inspectors' Returns, aboutInhabitants per House.Sanitary condition of Houses in general terms.Deaths from all causes, 1857.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, 1857.Remarks.
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    Street.Inhabitants from Inspectors' Returns, aboutInhabitants per House.Sanitary condition of Houses in general terms.Deaths from all causes, 1857.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, 1857.Remarks.
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    Each street is separately examined in the appendix, and the following is the general result:— D
    MORTALITY IN 1857.Number of foregoing Deaths which occurred in WorkhouseZymotic Diseases, (not fatal,) brought under notice of Medical Officer of Health.
    Zymotic Diseases.Comsumptive Diseases.All Causes.
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    Drains.CesspoolsWater Closets.Dust BinsPavement.General Water supplyGeneral improvementProceedings taken.
    No. of Houses inspected.No. of visits paid (approximate)Number constructed.Improved or repaired.Traps fixed-Abolished.Cleansed, &c.Pan, trap and water supply.Newly constructed or rebuilt.Cleaned or repaired.Water supply provided.Constructed.Repaired.Constructed.Relaid.Receptacles provided.Receptacles repaired.Water supply provided for house.Generally repaired.Cleansing and LimewhitingVentilation.Filth removed from cellars, &c,Notices issued.Summons.Reports to Police.
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    APPENDIX. TABLE I.—Deaths in Hospitals referred to Districts, obtained by Enquiries at the Hospitals, &c.
    Districts.Total ascertained deaths in London H ospitals.King'sCollege Hospital. (Strand.)Middlesex 1 Hospital, I (Marylebonc)lCharing Cross Hospital, (St. Martin's.)University College Hospital, (St. Pancras.)Children's Hospital, (Holborn.)St. Bartholomew's Hospital, (Wt. London)Boyal Free Hospital, query, a correct return. (St. Pancras.)London Fever Hospital, (Islington.)Westminster Hospital, (Westminster) [estmated.]St. Mary's Hospital, (Paddiagton.)Number of deaths in Hospitals out of the District.
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    TABLE II.—Births in 1857. in Sub-Districts.
    Births in 1857.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.Whole District.
    Males.Females.Males.Females.Males.Females.Males.Females.Total.
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    TAELE III.—Diseases and Ages.—St. Giles, 1857.
    CAUSES OF DEATH,All ages.Under 2.2, and under 5.5, aod under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 30.30 and under 40.40 and under 50.50 and under 60.60 and under 70.70 and under 80.80 and under 90.90 & un der 100.
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    TABLE III (Continued.)
    CAUSES OF DEATH.All ages.Under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 30.30 and under 40.40 and under 50.50 and under 6060 and under 70.70 and under 80.80 and under 90.90 and under 100
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    TABLE IV.—Comparison of Mortality from the various Classes of Disease, in St. Giles and the Metropolis—1857.
    CLASSES OF DISEASE.March Quarter, 1157.June Quarter, 1857.September Quarter, 1857.December Quarter, 1857.
    London.St. Giles.London.St, Giles.London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.
    Estimated.ActualEstimated.ActualEstimated.ActuaEstimated.Actual
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    TABLE V.—Mortality per Thousand in London, in the Divisions of London, and in St. Giles, in 1857, and in preceding Years. Note.—The numbers are computed on the population of the period named, aud comparison made throughout from the printed returus of the Registrar General.
    Mean of Ten Years. 1847 to 1857.1857, corrected to 365½ days.
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    TABLE VI.—Deaths from all causes in 1857, in Sub-Districts.
    Deaths.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.Whole District.
    Population (1851.)16807.19951.17456.54214.
    Males.Females.Males.Females.Males.FemalesMales.Females.Total.
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    TABLE VII.—Deaths from certain Zymotic Diseases in 1857, in Sub-Districts.
    Zymotic deaths.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.Whole District.
    Quarter of year.1st.2nd.3rd.4 th.1st.2nd.3rd.4th.1st.2nd.3rd.4th.1st.2nd.3rd.4th.Total Year.
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    TABLE VIII.
    Locality.Approximate area in acres.Quarters of year.Whole year.Add deaths in Hospitals 1857.1Totals for 1857, corrected.Locality.Children below 2 yrs. of age.Above 2 and below 5 years.Per centage of deaths below 2, in gross mortality.Per centage of all deaths below 5, in??
    1st.2nd.3rd.4th.
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    TABLE VIII.-(continued.)
    Deaths from Zymotic Diseases in the same ten Sub-Divisions- Hospital and Workhouse deaths being referred as before.Deaths from Consumptive Diseases, and from Diseases of the Lungs, in Table Sub-Divisions of St. Giles'.
    Locality.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Other Zymotic diseases.Total Zymotic diseases.Percentage of Zymotic deaths in gross mortality of year 1857.Locality.Consumptive (Tuberculous) diseases.Per centage of Consumptive deaths in gross mortality.Acute Lung diseases.Chronic Lung diseases.Lung disease, duration not specified.Per centage of acute Lung diseases in grass mortality.Percentage of total Lung diseases in??
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    TABLE IX.—Cases of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse, in the Four Quarters of 1857.
    Cases occurring—Within walls of Workhouse, (Infirmary & Inmates.)Among out-patients attending at Workhouse.Among patients visited at their own homes.
    Quarters of the year.Spring.Summer.Autumn.Winter.Whole Year.Spring.Snmr.Autm.WinterWhole Year.Spring.Summer.Autumn.Winter.Whole Year.
    Cases.New casesDeathsNew eases.DeathsNew cases.DeathsNew cases.Death3New cases.DeathsNew cases. No deaths.New cases.DeathsNew cases.DeathsNew cases.DeathsNew cases.DeathsNew eases.Deaths
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    TABLE X— Diseases of Common Lodging-houses, compared with other Houses in the same Streets.
    Street or Place.Number of Common Lodging Houses, and of other houses.Mortality in 1 857, iu Street. Workhouse and Hospitals.Of the total mortality, the subjoined Deaths took place in workhouseZymotic diseases (not fatal), brought under notice of M.O.H. 1857.
    Zymotic Diseases.Consumptive DiseasesAll diseases