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St Giles (Camden) 1860

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

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Table: I am much indebted to Mr. Bennett for the kindness with which he furnished me with a complete copy of his small-pox register, an abstract of which, for the half-year during which the epidemic prevailed in South St. Giles's (from October 1359 to March 31, 1860), is subjoined, arranged in two periods—before and after the house to house vaccination

I am much indebted to Mr. Bennett for the kindness with which he furnished me with a complete copy of his small-pox register, an abstract of which, for the half-year during which the epidemic prevailed in South St. Giles's (from October 1359 to March 31, 1860), is subjoined, arranged in two periods—before and after the house to house vaccination

date.CASES OF SMALL-POX ADMITTED.
In Vaccinated Persons.In Unvaccinated Persons.
Confluent.DiscreteTotal,Deaths.Confluent.Discrete.Total.Deaths.
October 1 to January 21.249511(a)29124114
January 21 to March 31.—4141—426(b)—

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(a) Not from small-pox, but from superadded disease. The case was that of a young
woman, aged 20, whose attack of small-pox had been discrete and modified; she was convalescent,
when she died suddenly without apparent cause. Examination alter death was not
allowed.
(b) Of which three occurred in a part of the district distant from that which had been
visited from house to house.

Table: APPENDIX No. IX.Houses and population of the Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's. From the census of 1861. (Ascertained since the completion of this Report.)

APPENDIX No. IX.

Houses and population of the Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's. From the census of 1861. (Ascertained since the completion of this Report.)

locality ofInhabited houses.residents.
A Bedford-square5083948
B Russell-square8105551
C Coram-street6496104
D Bloomsbury-square5365251
E Church-lane3244674
F Dudley-street5119047
G Short's-gardens3846306
H Northern Drury-lane3705155
K Southern Drury-lane2745057
L Lincoln's-inn-fields Workhouse308 12261 695
Total467554049

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Here Eve-terrace, Old St. Pancras-road (thirteen houses and eighty-eight
residents) is, for brevity's sake, included in locality A. The enumerator's
returns on which this Table is based, were kindly furnished to me by the
Registrar-General.—G.B.