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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 (Camden) 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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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'. | ||||||||||||||||
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| 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?? |
| A.—Bedford-square locality | — | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 19.4 | A.—Bedford -Square locality | 6 | 8.9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 8.9 | 22.4 |
| B.—Russell-square locality | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 19.0 | B.—Russel-Square locality | 13 | 20.6 | 6 | — | 4 | 9.5 | 14.3 |
| C.—Coram-street locality | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 13.4 | C.—Coram-street locality | 19 | 15.0 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 10.2 | 19.7 |
| D.—Bloomsbury-square locality | — | 1 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 25.8 | D.—Bloomsbury-square locality | 15 | 10.7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 6.2 | 13.3 |
| E.—Church-lane locality | — | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 23.0 | E.—Church-lane.locality | 33 | 23.0 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 9.1 | 32.2 |
| F.—Dudley-street locality | — | 17 | 8 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 76 | 26.0 | F.—Dudley-street locality | 36 | 12.3 | 39 | 14 | 6 | 13.3 | 20 .1 |
| G.—Short's-gardens locality (excluding Workhouse | — | 13 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 64 | 28.0 | G.—Short's-gardens locality | 44 | 19.2 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 7.4 | 13.5 |
| H,—Northern Drury-lane locality | 63 | 30.8 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 9.3 | 19.6 | ||||||||||
| H.—Northern Drury-lane locality | — | 6 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 45 | 22.0 | K.—Southern Drurv-lane locality | 23 | 18.8 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 7.4 | 20.5 |
| K.—Southern Drury-lane locality | — | 16 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 32.0 | L.—Lincoln's Inn-fields locality | 7 | 12.8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5.5 | 14.5 |
| L.—Lincoln's Inn-fields locality | — | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 14 | 25.5 | Workhouse itself, inmates, &c. | 12 | 11.0 | 4 | 30 | — | 3.6 | 30.9 |
| Workhouse itself, inmates, &e. | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2.7 | ||||||||
| Total District | 1 | 61 | 32 | 100 | 79 | 46 | 30 | 349 | 22.5 | Total District | 271 | 17.5 | 137 | 118 | 45 | 9.0 | 19.3 |