London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Giles (Camberwell) 1863

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Table I.—Shewing the Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell in Districts during the year 1863 (53 weeks.)

Table I.—Shewing the Mortality of the Parish of Camberwell in Districts during the year 1863 (53 weeks.)

At what Ages?From what Causes?
TOTAL.0 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3030 to 4040 to 5050 to 6060 to 7070 and over.Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth.FeverSmall Pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Measles.Hooping Cough.Group.Erysipelas, Pyœment, and Puerperal Fever.Dysentery and Acute Dior-rhœa not of Infants) and Cholera.Dinrrhœn, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of Infunts, under Three years of age.Hydrocephalus und Con-vulsfous of Infhey.Phthisis and other Tuber-Other diseases, chiefly Chromic.
M.F.M.F.
Dulwich81422910121221331021100103028
Camberwell30125956019516101539395043648923126379813793405383257
Peckham31435569933048181530284245598464165591116271985666691246
St. George's22023045019229121632242635453945123268717865604664143
Total8738581731726944047103921201251692151354114124293257342413169165240654

Table: Table II.—Shewing Deaths in Workhouses and Lunatic Asylums in 1863, (53 weeks.)

Table II.—Shewing Deaths in Workhouses and Lunatic Asylums in 1863, (53 weeks.)

M.F.M.FWorkhouseM.F.M.F.
6240102
Camberwell Sub-district301259560Lunatic Asylums.363167
Sub-district exelu-\ sive of above203188391