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14 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Population of St. George, Southwark.
.
The estimated population of St. George, Southwark, to the middle of
year 1892 is 59,818. The population of each Sub-District—according to the Cer
of 1891 was as follows:—
Borough Road 16,624
London Road 21,221
Kent Road 21,867
The Returns of the Registrar-General show an increase of population, betw
1881 and 1891 of 671 for the Borough Road District, and 486 for the Kent R
District, and a decrease of 97 for the London Road District.
Birth and Birth-Rate for 1892.
Table I. Gives the births and birth-rate per 1,000 per annum in each Dist
in the whole Parish, in London, and in the 33 large English Towns.
Table I.
Number of Births.
Birth-rate per 1,000.
Borough Road
636
38.1
London Road
700
33.0
Kent Road
813
37.0
Whole Parish
2,149
35.9
London
131,535
30.9
33 large English Towns
324,190 31.9
Death and Death-Rate for 1892.
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish, during the 52 we
ending Dec. 31st, 1892 (364 days), was 1240. Of this total 102 were deaths, with
the District, of non-parishioners—occurring in hospitals and asylums; and
deaths of parishioners of St. George, Southwark, occurred outside the Distric
public institutions and in the extra Metropolitan Asylums.
There were, therefore, 1,509 deaths of parishioners of St. George, Southwt
These 1,509 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate, for the year of 25.2 per 1,00
The death-rate for all London for the year was 20.3 per 1,000.
In the 41 Metropolitan Sanitary Districts the lowest death-rates were 12.
Hampstead, 14.9 in Lewisham (excluding Penge), 15 2 in Plumstead, 16 8 in War
worth, 17 3 in Hackney, and 17.5 in St. George, Hanover Square; the higl
rates were 25 2 in St. George, Southwark; 25.4 in Limehouse, 25.5 in St. Savig
Southwark; 261 in St. Luke, 271 in St. Olave, Southwark; 27.3 in Holborn, 2
in St. George-in-the-East, and 28 5 in the Strand.
It is thus seen that if sanitary reform is coincident with, and a chief ca
in effecting a lessened death-rate, that there is much room yet for improvement
Southwark.
The corrected death-rates of St. George, Southwark, and of London, for
past five decennia, as well as the rates for 1892 are as follows:—