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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) 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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The following table, carried forward from last year, shows the several rates for the eight years 1883-90:—
| Great Wild Street Block. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | Average for einht years 1883-90. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth-rate | 46.4 | 46.0 | 53.8 | 43.8 | 44.3 | 41.4 | 46.6 | 39.8 | 45.2 |
| Death-rate | 32.2 | 22.6 | 24.0 | 21.5 | 15.7 | 14.7 | 16.0 | 15.3 | 20.2 |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 7.0 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 8.3 | 6.1 | 1.4 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 4.9 |
THE LITTLE CORAM STREET BLOCK was opened in 1883 and consists of eight blocks, lettered A to H respectively.
| Block. | No. of tenements. | Rooms. | Total No. of rooms. | No. of w.c.'s. | No. of water-waste preventing cisterns. | No. of sinks and draw-off taps. | No. of dust shootf. | No ot dust receptacles | No. of wash-houst*. | Weekly rental of lettirgs. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of 1 rooms. | No. of 2 rooms. | No. of 3 rooms | |||||||||||
| Max. | Min. | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | |||||||||||||
The number of occupants in 1890 was 831; of these, 148
were children under 5 years.
There were 35 births, equal to a birth-rate of 42.1 per
1,000.