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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St James's 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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The following is a list of the mortality of different
years for the last 15 years.
1856
682
1864
832
1857
712
1865
704
1858
669
1866
769
1859
764
1867
707
1860
723
1861
758
1868
684
1862
727
1869
719
1863
757
1870
824
The average death rate of the Parish for the last
.15 years is 737, so that the death rate of the year
1870 exceeds that of the average by 87 deaths.
The difference of the death rate in the different
Districts of the Parish and at different seasons
between the years 1869 and 1870, may be clearly
seen by the following tables.
Table of Deaths in Districts and Quarters in 1869.
•
First
Quarter.
Second
Quarter.
Third
Quarter.
Fourth
Quarter.
Population.
St. James's Sq. Div.
38
27
28
27
10,453
Golden Square Div.
67
69
44
68
12,855
Berwick Street Div.
65
49
61
67
10,270
Workhouse
50
62
32
36
• •
220
207
164
198
33,587