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St Giles (Camden) 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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The 19 deaths were equal to a death-rate of 22.7 per
1,000.
There were 9 deaths of children under 5 years of age, of
these one died in University College Hospital.
Infectious diseases caused 4 deaths, viz., measles 3, and
whooping cough 1, equal to a zymotic death-rate of 4.7
per 1,000.
I have here tabulated these rates for the seven years. 1885-91.
| Little Coram Street Block. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | Average for five years 1886-90. | 1891. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth-rate | 39.0 | 53.6 | 45.8 | 43.1 | 48.5 | 42.1 | 46.6 | 48.9 |
| Death-rate | 13.6 | 18.2 | 24.1 | 20.3 | 17.7 | 19.2 | 19.9 | 22.7 |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 2.4 | 8.5 | 6.0 | 4.7 | 7.1 | 3.6 | 5.9 | 4.7 |
The Trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund, in their 27th
Annual Report for the year 1891, state that the net gain of
the year from rents, and interest has been £29,659 4.s. 7d.
Up to the end of the year the Trustees have provided for
the artizan and labouring poor of London, 11,273 rooms,
besides bath-rooms, laundries, and wash-houses, occupied by
20,269 persons. These rooms comprise 5,070 separate dwellings,
viz., 75 of 4 rooms, 1,788 of 3 rooms, 2,402 of 2 rooms,
and 805 of 1 room.
The average weekly earnings of each head of family was
£1 3s. 8d. and fraction. The average rent of each dwelling
was 4s. 9d. per week, and of each room 2s. I¾d. The rent
in all cases includes the free use of water, laundries, sculleries
and bath-rooms.
The birth-rate of all the several buildings was 39.1 per
1,000, which is 7.3 per 1,000 above the rate for all London.
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