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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) 1862

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

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Table: Distribution of Mortality from Brain Diseases in 1882. Also of Deaths from Violence and Intemperance.

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.
A.Bedford-square41062
B.Russell square814111
C.Coram street1016101
D.Bloomsbury-square510112
E.Church-lane1833112
F.Dudley street3033lo½6
G.Short's-gardens314912½11
H.Northern Drury-lane142798
K.Southern Drurv lane102076
L.Lincoln's Inn-fields41891
Workhouse Inmates21'192
Whole District155291042

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SECTION V.—On the Diseases and Deaths in the Practice of the Public
Medical Institutions of St. Giles's in 1862.
In the subjoined tables are furnished numerical data as to the amount of
sickness attended by the Medical Officers of the Workhouse and of the
Bloomsbury Dispensary.*

Table: New Cases treated at Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1862.

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.
Mar. 25th.84321326362661232143727927
June 24th.78514615320522255136019817
Sept. 29th.72914838341483212128219641
Dec. 25th.74419318324804193126127322
Whole Yr.3101700971347246108925340946107

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At the Bloomsbury Dispensary then the total number of patients was
almost identical with the number treated in 1861, but a notably greater number
of persons required attendance at their own homes. From the nature of the
prevailing disorders this would be expected. Affections of the air-passages
were observed by the physician to have been strikingly prevalent throughout
the year, herein confirming the experience derived from the register of deaths.
* In using these numbers it must be remembered that the proximity of a prevailing
disease to one or other of these Institutions is habitually found to bring that disease into
special prominence in the records of that Institution.
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