Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of]
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Table A.—
Districts. | Deaths from Cholera per 10,000 population. | Elevation in feet above Trinity. High Water. | Number of Persons per Statute Acre (1866). | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1832-3 | 1848-9 | 1854. | 1866. | Mean. | |||
Hampstead | 0 | 7 | 13 | 0.8 | 5.2 | 350 | 11 |
Islington | 10 | 19 | 11 | 4.4 | 11.1 | 94 | 62 |
Marylebone | 29 | 17 | 19 | 2.9 | 17.0 | 87 | 106 |
St. Pancras | 22 | 27 | 11 | 6.0 | 16.5 | 73 | 78 |
St. Giles | 53 | 69 | 28 | 9.6 | 39.9 | 68 | 213 |
Clerkenwell | 14 | 17 | 11 | 11.1 | 13.3 | 65 | 168 |
Hackney | 2 | 24 | 15 | 11.7 | 13.2 | 53 | 25 |
Holborn | 11 | 37 | 6 | 5.6 | 14.9 | 53 | 217 |
St. Luke | 25 | 31 | 11 | 15.9 | 20.7 | 51 | 258 |
Shoreditch | 9 | 116 | 49 | 12.7 | 46.7 | 48 | 212 |
Kensington | 10 | 33 | 49 | 3.7 | 23.9 | 40 | 31 |
Bethnal Green | 56 | 87 | 23 | 63.1 | 57.3 | 38 | 145 |
St. George's, Hanover Square | 12 | 26 | 49 | 1.6 | 22.1 | 34 | 81 |
Whitechapel | 115 | 58 | 24 | 77.5 | 68.6 | 32 | 188 |
Lewisham | 0 | 62 | 41 | 6.1 | 27.2 | 28 | 5 |
Wandsworth | 14 | 101 | 70 | 4.9 | 47.5 | 24 | 7 |
St. George's.in.the.East | 32 | 36 | 38 | 92.7 | 49.7 | 21 | 197 |
Chelsea | 84 | 44 | 52 | 3.5 | 45.9 | 12 | 76 |
Greenwich | 23 | 123 | 73 | 19.5 | 59.6 | 8 | 27 |
Poplar | 40 | 71 | 42 | 85.1 | 59.5 | 8 | 34 |
Camberwell | 38 | 122 | 107 | 5.9 | 68.2 | 4 | 19 |
Southwark | 123 | 161 | 129 | 7.9 | 105.2 | 3 | 132 |
Lambeth | 39 | 160 | 51 | 6.5 | 64.1 | 3 | 44 |
Westminster | 53 | 42 | 131 | 6.2 | 58.1 | 3 | 74 |
Newington | 45 | 127 | 94 | 2.6 | 67.1 | 0 | 148 |
Bermondsey | 71 | 155 | 183 | 5.6 | 103.6 | 0 | 94 |
Rotherhithe | 15 | 198 | 171 | 9.0 | 98.2 | 0 | 33 |
All London | 36 | 62 | 43 | 18.3 | 40.6 | 39 | 39 |
East London Union | .. | 46 | 23 | 15.0 | 28.0 | 40 | 246 |
West London Union | .. | 147 | 10 | 7.8 | 54.9 | 29 | 185 |
City of London Union | .. | 38 | 14 | 4.3 | 18.7 | 31 | 92 |
Entire City | 49 | 56 | 16 | 9.0 | 32.5 | 33 | 142 |