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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) 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE No. 8. —Showing the Number of Deaths in Public Hospitals situated out of the District.
| Sub-Districts. | Stockwell. | Homerton. | High gate. | Cleveland Street. | Charing Cross. | Fever, Liverpool Road. | Homoeopathic, Great Orniond Street. | King's College. | Royal Free. | University College. | St. Mary's. | St. Thomas's. | Westminster. | Middlesex. | St. Bartholomew's. | London. | Children's, Great Or-mond Street. | Guy's. | Consumption,Bronipton. | Cancer, Brompton. | St. George's. | total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George, Bloomsbury | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 7 | 1 | 4 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 32 |
| St. Giles South | 5 | 24 | 2 | 9 | .. | 20 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 72 | ||
| St. Giles North | 1 | .. | 9 | 1 | 6 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 11 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 37 |
| Entire District | 6 | 37 | 5 | 17 | .. | .. | 30 | 1 | 8 | .. | 4 | .. | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 141 |
I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to the authorities
of the various Hospitals and Institutions for their kindness in
allowing me access to their records.
I will now discuss these tables in order to arrive at a correct
Death-rate.
151 persons died in the Workhouse, 7 in the British Lying-in
Hospital, 24 in the Infants' Home, together 182. But only 115
of these belonged to us by previous residence, leaving 77 outsiders
from various Metropolitan Parishes to be deducted from the entire
District, and also from the several Sub-Districts.
On the other hand 141 deaths, which occurred in the General
Hospitals and Public Institutions outside the District, must be
added to our number.
The necessary additions and subtractions required to exhibit the
actual numbers are made as follows:—
TABLE No. 9. —Showing the Analysis of Deaths in St. Giles District
| St. Giles District. | St. Giles South, Sub-District. | St. Giles North, Sub-District. | St. George, Blooms bury, Sub-District. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Deaths 1,199 | Registered Deaths 546 | Registered Deaths 341 | Registered Deaths 312 |
| Add Deaths in General Hospitals 93 | Add Deaths in General Hospitals 41 | Add Deaths in General Hospitals 26 | Add Deaths in General Hospitals 26 |
| Add Deaths in Stockwell 6 | Add Deaths in Stockwell 5 | Add Deaths in Stockwell 1 | Add Deaths in Highgate 4 |
| Add Deaths in Highgate 37 | Add Deaths in Highgate 24 | Add Deaths in Highgate 9 | Add Deaths in Cleveland Street 2 |
| Add Deaths in Cleveland Street 5 | Add Deaths in Cleveland Street 2 | Add Deaths in Cleveland Street 1 | Add Deaths in Workhouse 16 |
| 141 1,340 | 72 618 | Add Deaths in Workhouse 39 | 48 |
| Deduct Strand 19 | Deduct Strand 19 | 76 | 360 |
| Deduct Miscellaneous 29 | Deduct Miscellaneous 29 | Total, 417 | Deduct Deaths in Infants' Home 24 |
| Deduct Lying-in Hospital 5 | Deduct Lying-in Hospital 5 | Total, 336 | |
| Deduct Infants' Home 24 | Deduct Workhouse (St. Giles North) 39 | St. Giles North 417 St Giles South 510 | |
| 77 | Deduct Work-house (St. George,Blooms-bury) 16 | Total, 1,263 | |
| Total, 1,263 | |||
| 108 | |||
| Total, 510 |