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St Giles (Camden) 1862

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

Published
1863
Pages
32
Tables
25

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25 tables in this report

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    MORTALITY IN 1862.
    Districts.Population, 1 862.REGISTERED MORTALITY.Column A (seeColumn B. Note.)Total Mortality in 1862 corrected for Cols A. & BDistricts.
    1st Quarter, 13 Weeks.2nd Quarter, 13 Weeks.3rd Quarter, 13 Weeks.4th Quarter, 13 Weeks.Whole Year, 52 Weeks.
    Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 1:0,000.Actual number.per 10,000.Actual number.per 10 000.Actual number.per 10,000.(add)( subtract.)Actual number.per 10,000.
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    Death-rate per 10.000* in St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts.
    districts.1857.1858.1859.18C0.1861.1862.
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    Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London and in Saint Giles'. Whole Year, 1862.
    Classes.Cusses and Orders of Disease.London.Sr Giles's, Population, 54,026.
    Population, 2,859,778.Estimated Quota.*Actual Registered Mortality.Corrected for Deaths in Hospitls.
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    Sub-districts of St. Giles's, Deaths in 1862.
    Deaths of residents in sub-district ofDying at own HomesDying in Hospitals.Dying ill Worhouse.Total.
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    Comparing these figures with the results of former years (and taking the rate per ten thousand to avoid fractions) we have the following Death-rate per 10,000 in Sub-districts*
    districts.1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.
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    Registered Births in Sub-districts.
    sub-districts.1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.
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    Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's; their order of Mortality from all causes, 1862.
    Order of Sequence, 1862.Locality ofActual number of Deaths in 1862.Total Mortality per 10,000
    In Houses.In Workh.In Hosptls.Total.
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    The Ten Sub-divisions—their Order of Infantile Mortality in 1862.
    Order of Sequence, 1862.Locality ofDeaths among Children in 1862.Infantile mortality per 10,000 residents.
    Under 2 years.2 years to 5 years.Total under 0 5 ears.
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    The Ten Localities—their Order of Mortality from Zymotic Diseases, (Miasmatic Order) 1862.
    0rder of Sequence, 18 6 2.Locality ofDeaths from Miasmatic Diseases in 1862.Zymotic mortality per 10,000
    All miasmatic diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheritis.Whooping Cough.Continued fevers, of which ( ) registered as "typhus."Diarrhoea.Other miasmatic diseases.
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    The Ten Localities—their order of Mortality from Tubercular Diseases, 1862.
    Order of Sequence, 18 62.Locality ofDeaths from Tubercular Diseases.Tubercular Mortality per 10.000.
    From Consumption, Tabes, and Scrofula.From Water-on-the Brain.Total.
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    The Ten Localities--their order of Mortality from Diseases of the Lungs, 1862
    Order of Sequence, 186 2.Locality ofDeaths from Lung Diseases.Mortality per 10,000.
    Acte Bronchitis, Inflammation of Lungs and Pleura.Chronic Bronchitis and Asthma.Total.From acute lung diseases.From all lung diseases.
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    Distribution of Mortality from Brain Diseases in 1882. Also of Deaths from Violence and Intemperance.
    Deaths from Brain Diseases.Deaths from Violence and Intemperance. Actual number in 1862.
    In Locality ofActual mortality.Per 10.000 of population.Per cent. of total mortality.
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    New Cases treated at Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1862.
    Quarter ending.Physician's Cases.Surgeon's cases.Casualties.Total.
    Admitd.Visited at home.Died.Admitd.Visited at home.Died.Admitd.Visited at home.Died.
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    Cases of Disease and Deaths, occurring in the Practice of the Workhouse in 1862, and its four Quarters.
    Cases occurring.Within Walls of Workhouse, (Infirmary and Inmates.)Among Out- Patients attending at Workhouse.Among Patients visited at their own homes.
    Quarters or the Year.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.First.SecondThird.Eourth.Whole Year.First QuarterSecond Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year.
    Cases.New Cases.Deaths.New CasesDeaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases. No Deaths.New Cases.Deaths.New CasesDeaths.New Cases.Deaths.New Cases.DeathsNew 1 Cases.Deaths.
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    House Improvements in St. Giles's, effected under the superintendence of Inspector Webb, between March 25th. 1862, and March, 25th, 1863.
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    CHURCHYARD
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    TABLE I —Mortality per Thousand iu London, in the Divisions of London, and in St. Giles's in 1862 and in preceding Years. Note .—The numbers are computed on an estimate of the population of the period named, and comparison made throughout from the printed returns of the Registrar General.
    Mean of Ten years 1847 to 1856.Death-rate of Five last years, each corrected to 356ΒΌ days.
    1857.1858.1859.1860.1861.1862.
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    TABLE II.—Deaths in Hospitals among Patients brought from St. Giles's and neighbouring Districts, 1862.
    Districts.Total ascertained Deaths in London Hospitals.Kings College Hospital, (Strand).Middlesex Hospital (Marylebone).Charing Cross Hospital (St. Martins)University College Hospital (St Pancras)Children's Hospital (Holborn).St. Bartholomew's Hospital (W London)Royal Free Hospital (St. Pancras).London Fever Hospital (Islington).Westminster Hospital (Westminster).St. Mary's Hospital (Paddington)Deaths in Hospital out of the district.
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    TABLE IV.—Comparison of Mortality from various causes in London, and in St. Giles Four Quarters, 1862.
    Class.Classes and Orders of Disease.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quart
    London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles.London.St. Giles
    Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.Actual Number.Estimated Quota.
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    TABLE III - Causes of Deaths in St. Giles's in 1862, with the Ages at Death. (Deaths in Hospitals are here included.)
    Class.Causes op Death.At all Ages.Under 2 years.2 and under 5.5 and under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 25.25 and under 35.35 and under 45.45 and under 55.55 and under 65.65 and under 75.75 and under 85.85 and upwards.
    Males.Femls.Total.
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    TABLE III—(continued.) Diseases in Orders.
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 2 years.2 and under 5.5 and nnder 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 25.25 and under 35.35 and under 45.45 and under 55.55 and under 65.65 and under 75.75 and under 85.85 and upwards.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE III. Diseases in Orders—(continued.)
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 2 years2 and under 5.5 and under 10.10 and under 20.20 and under 25.25 and under 35.35 and under 45.45 and under 55.55 and under 65.65 and under 75.75 and under 85.85 and upwards.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE V.—Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1862. Sub-Districts Of St Giles's. (Corrected, but see note to page 3†)
    Deaths in Sub-Districts. [Population 1861, corrected.]First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third QuarterFourth Quarter.Whole Year, 1862.
    M.F.M.FM.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
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    TABLE VI —Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1862. Sub-Districts of St. Giles's.
    Births in Sub-Districts.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Whole Year, 1862.
    M.F.MF.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children
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    TABLE VII.- Houses and Population of the Ten Sub-divisions of St. Giles's. From the Census of 1861.
    locality ofinhabited houses.residents.