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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health-1892 13
ANNUAL REPORT
on
???he sanitary condition
of the
Earish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark,
FOR THE YEAR 1892,
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
SECTION I.—STATISTICAL
???NTLEMEN,
Herewith I beg to present my First Annual Report for the year 1892-a
???essarily incomplete one, owing to my only having entered office on June 1st,
2. With a view to making the Report available for statistical purposes, I have
e thy best to add the main figures missing for the first five months of the year
???er report, and to supply a summary of action taken or advised by my predecessor
???ing the same period, for preventing the spread of disease. I regret ray inability
ompare the corrected death-rates in past years of St. George, Southwark, with
se of London ; since, so far as I can ascertain, no corrected death-rate has ever
n kept in the past in this Parish.
Cts Concerning the Sanitary District of St. George, Softhwark.
Area.—The Area of St. George, Southwark, embraces 284.373 acr. The
gth of the streets and roads, as returned to the end of 1892, was 19 miles, 5 fur.,
poles.
Elevation.—The population of St. George, Southwark, resides at a mean
vation of .54 feet below the Trinity high water mark of the River Thames, as
inst a mean elevation, for London, of 47.50 feet above the same mark.
Houses.—At the Census in 1891 there were within this area,7,567 inhabited
nses, containing an average of 7.8 persons to a house. According to the 1881
asus the inhabited houses numbered 6,761—i.e., 806 less than in 1891. The
mber of inhabited tenements was 9,603 at the end of 1892.
Density (Population estimated to middle of 1892). -210.6 persons to an acre,
against 57.1 per acre for London.