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16 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Table IV. shows the unprecedented proportion, considering the size of
area, of 259 7 persons living on each acre, and 7.3 persons to each house within
Borough Road District.
The apparent anomaly which appears in the difference in numbers, of perst
inhabiting each house, in the three Districts, is explained by the larger number
block buildings situate in the Borough Road District—really consisting of seve
distinct houses (i.e., separated from the next adjoining building by an unbroken pa
wall)—which were counted in the Census as separate houses only. These blocks
again sublet in the shape of separate tenements or flats.
Dr. Ogle has pointed out that where people are crowded together certain
jurious conditions are produced, which directly affect the mortality; the air, the s
and often the water are liable to be fouled ; and infectious diseases, having a shor
average distance to travel from individual to individual, are more readily spri
abroad. But these direct consequences of close aggregation are propably as noth
in comparison with its indirect consequences or concomitants.
The more crowded a community, the greater—speaking generally—is
amount of abject want, of filth, of crime, of drunkenness, and of other excesses,
more keen is the competition, and the more feverish and exhausting the conditi
of life. The correction or amelioration of these indirect influences are outside
domain of the Public Health Department.
The death-rate of the 33 great towns of England and Wales was 20.7
1,000—the lowest being :—
Croydon 15.8
Bradford 18.0
Huddersfield 18.1
Leicester 18.2
Portsmouth 18.5
The highest being:—
Bolton 22.8
Manchester 23.8
Preston 24.1
Salford 24.6
Liverpool 24.7
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 19.4, that of Glasgow 22.7, and that
Dublin 29 3.
The lowest death-rates in Colonial and Foreign Cities are:—
Sydney 13.5
Christiania 19.3
Berlin 19.6
Copenhagen 19.9
Amsterdam 20.0
Stockholm
The highest being:—
Moscow 36.9
Hamburg 39.7
Alexandria 41.3
Madras 46.0
Cairo 47.0
Zymotic ok Preventable Death Kate.
The corrected death-rate in St. George, Southwark, from the seven princ
Zymotic diseases was 3.6 per 1,000 in 1892, as against 2 8 per 1,000 in Lon
generally, and 2.6 in the 33 great towns of England and Wales.