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15 Annual Report of the Medical Officcr of Health—1892.
Table II.
Years.
St. George, Southwark.
London.
Death-rate per 1,000.
-
Death-rate per 1,000.
1841—50 inclusive
30
25
1851—60 „
27
24
1861—70 „
97
24
1871—80 „
25.2
24
1881—90 „
25.0
22.4
1892 „
25.2
20.5
20.3
It appears from Table II that the greater stringency in the application of the
???ilic Health (Lond.) Act which came into operation at the conmienctment of
2—than was the case with previous Sanitary Acts, has not yet had time enough
ffect any appreciable reduction in the Metropolitan death-rate.
The corrected death-rates of each Sub-district, the whole Parish, and of London,
as under:—
Table III.
Sub-District.
No. of Deaths.
Death-rate per 1,000.
Deaths under 1 year
to 1,000 Births.
ough Road
548
32.3
220
London Road
435
20.4
172
???t Road
526
24.0
177
ole Parish
1,509
25.2
188
London
86,355
20.3
155
The higher death-rate, as seen in Table III., of 32.3 per 1000 in the Borough
???id, than in the other sub-districts, may be partially explained by the fact of the
???ilina Hospital, and St. George's Workhouse, Mint Street, being situated in this
???-district. There were 36 deaths of parishioners, during 1892 in the former
???titution, and 16 deaths, of which I have no means of ascertaining whether or no
???tarishioners, in the St. George's Union Workhouse; making allowance for these
???ths—the death-rate in the Borough Road still exceeds the rates in the other sub???ricts.
This excess, however, may be explained when we consider the direct and
???irect effects of aggregation, taken in conjunction with the actual excessive density
???topulation and complete absence of open spaces, together with the surface-overwding,
which obtains in this Sub-district.
Table IV.
Calculated from the enumerated Population in 1891.
Sub-Disirict.
Persons to an Acre.
Persons to each House.
Borough Road
259.7
7.3
London Road
181.3
9.1.
212.3
7.3