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 Camberwell]
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Table I.— Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell, during the year terminating December, the 30th, 1859.
M. | F. | Total. | 0 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 30 | 30 to 40 | 40 to 50 | 50 to 60 | 60 to 70 | 70 and over. | Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth. | Fever | Dysentery and Acute Dirrœa (not of Infants) | Scarlet Fever and 1 Cynanche Maligna. 1 | Small Pox, | Erysipelas, Pyœmia and Puerperal Fever. | Diarrhœa, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of Infats under three years. | Measles, Hooping Cough, and Croup. | Hydrocephalus and Convulsion of Infancy. | Phthisis and other Tuber cular diseases | Other diseases, chiefly Chronic. | |
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Dulwich | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 1 | 2 | 13 |
Camberwell | 218 | 265 | 483 | 124 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 59 | 62 | 49 | 57 | 84 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 58 | 11 | 23 | 62 | 275 |
Peckham | 230 | 270 | 500 | 202 | 28 | 4 | 12 | 23 | 27 | 38 | 35 | 48 | 83 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 40 | 9 | 5 | 65 | 28 | 39 | 74 | 205 |
St. George's | 187 | 177 | 364 | 162 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 27 | 31 | 36 | 33 | 15 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 57 | 27 | 26 | 44 | 129 |
General total | 641 | 726 | 1367 | 494 | 58 | 17 | 26 | 77 | 113 | 122 | 114 | 138 | 208 | 81 | 31 | 4 | 82 | 12 | 15 | 183 | 66 | 89 | 182 | 622 |
Table II.
M. | F. | Total. | Workhouse | M. | F. | Total. | |
28 | 38 | 66 | |||||
Camberwell Sub-district. | 218 | 2G5 | 483 | Lunatic Asylums. | 46 | 561 | 102 |
Sub-district exclusive of above | 144 | 171 | 315 |