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St George (Southwark) 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]
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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Table IX.
Comparative Analysis of Deaths, &c., of the undermentioned South London Dist ???
during the Year 1892.
Sanitary
Area.
Estimated
Population
to middle
of 1892.
Annual rate per 1,000 living.
Deaths of
Children under
one year of age
Deaths.
Principal
Zymotic
Diseases.
St. George the Martyr, Southwark
59.818
25.2
3.6
188
St. Saviour, Southwark
26,973
25.5
2.5
187
Newington
116,649
24.5
3.9
172
St. Olave, Southwark
12,787
27.1
3.1
184
Bermondsey
84,440
23.0
2.6
162
Rotherhithe
39,459
21.5
3.2
150
Lambeth
277,917
19.8
2.6
130
Battersea
150,313
17.8
2.6
163
Wandsworth
104,003
15.8
2.3
147
Camberwell
241,465
18.7
2.6
155
Greenwich
169,734
19.2
2.6
148
Lewisham (excluding Penge)
74,073
14.9
1.7
138
Woolwich
41,376
19.8
2.1
147
Plumstead
91,704
15.2
2.0
110