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St Giles (Camden) 1876

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

Published
1877
Pages
80
Tables
65

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  • Page 8
    The following table shows the several amounts paid by this District to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the last ten years:—
    Year.Amount.
    £s.d.
  • Page 8
    The amounts paid by this district to the London School Board since it was constituted are as follow:—
    Year.Amount.
    £s.d.
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    TABLE—No. III. S howing the R egistered M ortality in each Q uarter and in each Sub-District, 1875.
    Class.CAUSES OF DEATH.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.
    St. George, Bluomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV.—Causes of Death Registered in the St . Giles District in 1875, with the Ages at Death.
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV—Diseases in Orders—(Continued).
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and nnder 40.40 and nnder 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV.—Diseases in Orders—(Continued).
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
  • Page 14
    THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE SAINT GILES DISTRICT. Abstract of Receipts and Payments of the above Board, for GENERAL PURPOSES, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger.£s.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Folio in ledger.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 16
    Summary of General Account, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments for SEWERS, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS.Folio Ledge£s.d.PAYMENTS.Folio in Ledger.£s.d.
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    Summary Sewers Account, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS'.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments on the FOUNDLING ESTATE ACCOUNT, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS.Folio in Ledger.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Folio in Ledger.£s.d.
  • Page 18
    Summary of Foundling Estate Account, from the 25th day of March, 1876, to the 25th day of March, 1877.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
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    Brunswick Square Garden Kate Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
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    Summary of Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
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    Metropolitan Consolidated Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Folio in ledger£s.d.PAYMENTS.Folio in Ledger.£s.d.
  • Page 19
    Summary of Metropolitan Consolidated Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.
  • Page 20
    General Account,
    Moneys owing to the above Board. 25th March. 1877. and Stock in HandDebts and Liabilities of the above Board. 25tli March. 1877.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Sewer Account.
    Moneys owing to the above Board, 15tli March, 1877, and Stock in Hand.Debts and Liabilities of the above Board, 25th March, 1877.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 21
    FOUNDLING ESTATE ACCOUNT. Proportion of Bond Debt on the Foundling Estate Account transferred to this Board, by order of the Metropolitan Board of Works, of the 1st day of August, 1856, £6,746.
    Moneys owing to the above Hoard, 25th March, 1877.Debts mid Liabilities of the above Board, 25th March, 1877.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 21
    Metropolitan Consolidated Rate Account.
    Moneys owing to the above Board, 25th March, 1877.Debts and Liabilities of the above Board, 25th March, 1877.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 21
    Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    Moneys owing to the above Board, 25th March, 1877.Debts and Liabilities of the above Board, 25th March, 1877.
    £8.d.£8,d.
  • Page 23
    Statement of all Contracts entered into by the above Board up to the 25th Day of March, 1877.
    Stone.Gravel, Sand, Ballast, Cartage, &c.Slop.Dust and Ashes.Watering.Gas.Sewers.
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    Carriageways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net Cost.
    £s.d.
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    New Pavings— continued. Footways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net Cost.
    £s.d.
  • Page 27
    The following Table shows the total quantity of street sweepings carted from the District during the last three years:
    Date.Number of Loads of Slop and Dust Removed.Number of Loads of Snow Removed.Total of Slop and Snow Removed.
  • Page 27
    The cost of the street cleansing, for the year ending 25th March, 1877, was as follows:
  • Page 28
    The amounts paid for street watering during the last four years, and the quantity of water used for that purpose, are given in the following Table:
    Date.Quantity of Water Used.Amount paid for Watsr Meter Hire, &c.A mount paid for Hire of Carta. Horses, & Men.Total Cost of Work.
    Gallons.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 35
    TABLE No. 1.—Showing Number of Marriages which have taken Place in St. Giles District during the Year 1876.
    Name of Building.Denomination.Number of Marriages.
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    TABLE No. 2.—Showing Number of Births Registered in St. Giles District during the Year 1876.
    Sub-Districts.Births.
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    TABLE No. 3.—Showing the Number of Children Born in Public Institutions in St. Giles District, 1876.
    Sub-Districts.Workhouse.Lying-in Hospital.Total.
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    TABLE No. 4.— Showing the Analysis of Births in St. Giles District.
    St. Giles District.St. Giles South, Sub-District.St. Giles North, Sub-District.St. George, Bloomsbury, Sub-District.
  • Page 37
    TABLE No. 5.—Showing the Birth.rate to Population in St. Giles and its Sub.Districts in 1876.
    Sub.Districts.Population.Births.Ratio of Births to Population.Rate per 1,000
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    TABLE No. 6.—Showing the Birth.rate per 1,000 in St. Giles District and Sub.Districts in 1876, and Seven previous Years.
    Districts.1869.1870.1871.1872.1873.18741875.Average Birthrate for 7 years1876.
  • Page 37
    TABLE No. 7.—Showing the Number op Deaths Registered in St. Giles District for the Year 1876.
    Sub-Districts.Deaths.
  • Page 38
    TABLE No. 8.—Showing the Number of Deaths in St. Giles Workhouse, Lying-in Hospital, and the Infants' Home.
    Districts.St. Giles Workhouse.British Lying-in Hospital.Infants' Home.Total Number of Deaths.
  • Page 38
    TABLE No. 9.—Showing the Number of Deaths in Public Hospitals, situated out of the District.
    Sub-Districts.Hampstead.Stock Well.House?itionHighgate.Cleveland Street.Charing CrossLondon Fever, Liverpool Road.King's College.Royal Free.University College.St. Mary's.St. Thomas's.Westminster.Middlesex.St. Dartholoinew's.London.Children's, Great or-mond Street.Guy's.Consumption, Brunmpton. |Cancer, Brompton.St. George's.Total.
  • Page 39
    TABLE No. 10.—Showing the Analysis of Deaths in St . Giles District.
    St. Giles District.St. Giles South, Sub ? -District.St. Gil en North, Sub-District.st. eorge, Bloomisbury, Sub-District.
  • Page 39
    TABLE No. 11.—Showing the Death-Rate to Population in St. Giles and its Sub-Districts in 1876.
    Sub-Districts.Population.Deaths.Ratio of Deaths to Population.Rate per 1,000.
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    TABLE No. 12.—Showing the Death-bate per 1,000 in 1876, and Ten Preceding Years.
    Sub-Distrtcts.1866.1867.1868.1869.1870.1871.1872.1873.1874.1875.Average Death-rate for Ten Years.1876.
  • Page 41
    TABLE No. 13.—Showing the Annual Bate of Mortality, Death-rate among Children, and Deaths in Public. Institutions.
    Annual Rate of Mortality per 1,000 livingDeaths of Children under one Year; Percentage of total Deaths. *Percentage of Deaths of Children under one Year to Births †Deaths of Children under five Years; Percentage of total Deaths.Total Number of Deaths among Parishioners in Public Hospitals outside the District.Total Number of Deaths among Non-Parishioners in Publie Institutions within the District.
  • Page 42
    TABLE No. 14.—Displaying the Mortality from some of the more Important Diseases in 1876, in tiieir Order of Fatality.
    Name of Disease.Sub-Districts.Total.
    St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South,St. Giles North.
  • Page 43
    TABLE No. 15.—Showing the Mortality from Certain Classes of Diseases, and Proportions to Population, and to 1,000 Deaths, 1876, viz.: ( Deaths in General Hospitals included. )
    Total Deaths.Deaths per 1,000 of Population.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths.
  • Page 44
    TABLE No. 16.—Showing the Number of Deaths in the Ten Years 1866 to 1875, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases and the Number, in 1876.
    Disease.1866.1867.1868.1869.1870.1871.1872.1873.1874.1875.Annual average of 10 years, 1866 to 1875.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1866 to 1875.1876.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1876.
  • Page 45
    The next case was reported to me on the 6th October, and from that date to the 31st December cases occurred in the District as shown below:
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    TABLE No. 17.—Relating to Vaccination in St. Giles District.
    Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District.Number of Births returned in the Birth List Sheets as registered from 1st January to 30th June, 1876.Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1877, in Columns 10, 11, and 13 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets), viz.:Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1877, remained unentered in the Vaccination Regester on account (as shown by Report Book) of—Number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 1877, neither duly registered in the Vaccination Register "(Columns 3, 4, 5 & 6 of this Return), nor temporarily accounted for in the Report Book" (Columns 8, 9 & 10 of this Return).
    Col. 10.Column 11.Col 13.Postponement by Medical Certificate.Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removal to Places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and Cases not having been found.
    Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small Pox.Dead Unvaccinated.
    St. George, Bloomsbury222191——16——123
    St. Giles South233185——314—85
    J St. Giles North400295——40218369
    Entire District855671——876185617
  • Page 48
    Fever (typhus and typhoid) was fatal in 14 cases, viz.:
    District.Typhoid.Typhus.Total.
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    TABLE No. 18.—Showing the Principal Localities in which Fatal Cases of the Chief Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1876. St. George, Bloomsbury, Registration Sub-District.
    Locality.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.
    Typhus.Typhoid.Simple Continued.
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    TABLE No. 19.—S howing the P rincipal L ocalities in which F atal C ases of the C hief Z ymotic D iseases occurred in 1876. St. Giles South, Registration Sub-District.
    Locality.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.
    Typhus.Typhoid.Simple Continued.
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    TABLE No. 20.—Showing the Principal Localities in which Fatal Cases of the Chief Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1876. St. Giles North Registration, Sub-District.
    Locality.Small Pox.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Measles.Whooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.
    Typhus.Typhoid.Simple Continued
  • Page 52
    TABLE No. 21.—Showing the List of Registered Common Lodging-Houses in St. Giles District, with the Number of Inmates allowed in each.
    No. of House.Locality.No. of Lodgers allowed.No. of House.Locality.No. of Lodgers allowed.
  • Page 53
    TABLE No. 22.—Showing the Number of Inquests in 1876, with the Cause of Death.
    Cause of Death.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.Total.
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    TABLE No. 23.—Showing the Number of New Cases treated at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, 1876.
    Quarter ending—Physicians' Cases.Surgeons' CasesCasualties aboutTotal.
    TotalNo. under Treatment.Visited at home.Died.TotalNo. under Treatment.Visited at home.Died.TotalNo. under Treat-ment.Visited at home.Died.
  • Page 55
    House Improvements, &c. TABLE No. 24.—S howing the R eport of the S anitary W ork, &c, in 1876, carried out under the S uperintendence of the S anitary I nspectors.
    St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.Total.
  • Page 55
    Disinfecting Chamber. Showing the List of Articles Disinfected in Hot-Air Cham be k during 1876.
    Articles.No.Articles.No.Articles.No.Articles.No.
  • Page 56
    Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868. This Act, commonly known as Torrens' Act, was applied to the following houses:
    Orders made for Structural Alterations, but Works not yet carried out.Remedied by Structural Alterations and Improvements.Ordered to be Closed or Demolished.
  • Page 57
    The area contains about 5½ acres, and 227 houses stand upon it, inhabited by 3,897 persons, as detailed below :
    Locality.No. of Houses.No. of Inhabitants.
  • Page 58
    Representation, No. 2.—Little Coram Street District. I have forwarded to the Metropolitan Board of Works, another representation under this Act, which refers to Little Coram Street, and its courts and alleys, scheduled as follows:
    Locality.No. of Houses.No. of Inhabitants.
  • Page 59
    Slaughter Houses. In November last the Middlesex magistrates granted a licence conditionally on the receipt of certificates from your Surveyor, that the necessary works ordered by the Board had been carried out, viz.:
    Locality.Licensees.
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    Cow Sheds, The Bench granted licences on similar terms to the undermentioned cowkeepers.
    Locality.Licensees.No. of Cows.
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    Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1876. Sub-Districts of St. Giles,
    Sub-Districts. (Population, 1871.)First Quarter. 13 weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter. 13 weeks.Whole Year, 1876. 52 weeks.
    M.FM.FM.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
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    TABLE II. Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1876. Sub-Districts of St. Giles.
    Sub-Districts.First Quarter. 13 weeks.Second Quarter. 13 weeks.Third Quarter. 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter. 13 weeks.Whole Year, 1876. 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children.
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    TABLE No. III.—S howing the R egistered M ortality in each Q uarter and in each SUB-DISTRICT, 1876.
    Class.causes of death.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.
    St. George, Blooil-sbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.S*. George. Bloomsbury.St Giles SouthSt. Giles North.St. George, Boomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV.—Causes of Death Registered in the St. Giles District in 1876, with the Ages at Death.
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under GO.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV.— D iseases in O rders— continued.
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 4040 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St, George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.
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    TABLE IV.—D iseases in O rders— continued.
    Class.Causes of Death.At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and upwards.Sub-Districts.
    Males.Females.Total.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles South.St. Giles North.