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St Giles (Camden) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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| Street. | Inhabitants from Inspectors' Returns, about | Inhabitants per House. | Sanitary condition of Houses in general terms. | Deaths from all causes, 1857. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, 1857. | Remarks. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per centage | This is by no means a good street: its inhabitants are very poor for the most part, and the mortality from all causes is just at the high average of the District generally. | |||||||||||||
| Little Coram St. | Men 86— 23 p.c. | Average, 11. | Good. Clean. | It Street | 7 | , 297 (see above.) | None. | 0.0 | ||||||
| Women..122— 33 p.c. | Privies mostly clean, | Taken to Workhouse ill, and there died, | 2 | |||||||||||
| Children.162— 44 p.c. | Largest number. 20 | 53 per cent, of them without water. | ||||||||||||
| 33 houses of about | Total 370 (100 p.c. | Died in Hospitals, | 2 | |||||||||||
| seven rooms each | (Col. 2.) | (Col. 3 ) | (Col. 4.) | Total | 11 | |||||||||
| (Col. 5.) | (Col. 6.) | |||||||||||||
| None common | Deaths in Children under five years of age, 1857, | Deaths from Tubercular Diseases, (Consumption, &c.) 1857. | Deaths from Diseases of the Lungs (excluding Consumption) 1857. | |||||||||||
| lodging-houses. | In Street | \ 3 | Per centage of total mortality, 27-2. | Per centage of total mortality, | Per centage. | |||||||||
| In Workhouse | 0 | One. | 91. | None. | 0.0 | |||||||||
| In Hospitals., | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Total | / 3 | |||||||||||||
| (Col. 1.) | (Col. 7.) | (Col. 8.) | (Col.'9.) | (Col. 10.) | ||||||||||
* Note.—From the above statement it follows (col. 5) that if the whole population of London had died at the rate of the inhabitants of Dudley Street, there would have been 41,437 additional deaths from all
causes, (the actual mortality in the year being 60,150.)
There would have been (col. 6) 17,898 additional deaths from Zymotic (Epidemic) diseases alone, (the actual mortality from these being 13,090.)
There would havo been (col. 8) 14,526 additional deaths from Consumptive diseases alone, (the actual mortality from these being 10,217.)
There would have been (col. 9) 7,702 additional deaths from Lung diseases alone, (excluding consumption)—(the actual mortality from these being 10,890.) G. BUCHANAN, M.D,