Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Sub-districts of St. Giles's, Deaths in 1863.
Deaths of residents in sub-district of | Dying at own Homes. | Dying in Hospitals. | Dying in Workhouse. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bloomsbury | 318 | 18 | 19 | 355 |
St. Giles's South | 481 | 38 | 104 | 623 |
116 | 116 | |||
St.. Giles's North | 403 | 23 | 52 | 478 |
Whole District | 1202 | 79 | 291 | 1572 |
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. | 1863. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St George, Bloomsbury | 180 | 198 | 184 | 185 | 205 | 216 | 199 |
St Giles's South | 357 | 292 | 349 | 346 | 291 | 317 | 327 |
St. Giles's North | 283 | 277 | 240 | 247 | 279 | 282 | 273 |
Whole District | 280 | 258 | 260 | 262 | 270 | 289 | 285 |
In the year 1863, the three sub-districts were in their usual order, viz:
Bloomsbury healthiest, next St. Giles' North, while the largest mortality falls
on St. Giles' South. None of the sub-districts differed strikingly from its
average of former years, hut a slight decline in the mortality of Bloomsbury
from 1862 is to be observed.
In this place it is customary to give the registered Births of each year.
The Registrar General comments upon the increased vigilance of local registrars
throughout the metropolis, in getting information of all the births that
occur. Perhaps this cause may have operated to increase the numbers in St.
Giles's. But it is certain that any such vigilance is an inadequate substitute
for a proper system of compulsory registration, such as exists in Scotland
and Ireland and in most Continental countries.
Registered Births in Sub-districts.
Sub-districts. | 1857. | 1858. | 1859. | 1860. | 1861. | 1862. | 1863. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. George Bloomsbury | 398 | 403 | 411 | 430 | 416 | 383 | 467 |
St. Giles's South | 860 | 717 | 780 | 786 | 808 | 772 | 881 |
St. Giles's North | 592 | 557 | 538 | 562 | 532 | 583 | 550 |
Whole District | 1850 | 1677 | 1729 | 1778 | 1756 | 1738 | 1898 |