[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

  • St. Giles (London, England). District Council.
Date:
1866
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    7 Violent Deaths were, in some degree, more frequent in St. Giles's than in other parts. The excess was entirely caused by accident or negligence, under which head are included the deaths of 18 infants from suffocation. Section IV.—On the Localization of Disease and Death in St. Giles's in 1865. The distribution of our mortality through the three sub-divisions of the district, has followed the ordinary rule. Bloomsbury has had the smallest, St. Giles South the highest, and St. Giles North an intermediate death rate. This conclusion is arrived at after correction for deaths in the workhouse and in hospitals as follows:— The deaths recorded by the Registrar of Bloomsbury numbered 431—216 males and 215 females. To these must be added the deaths of 10 Bloomsbury parishioners, who died in St. Giles's workhouse, and those of 22 persons taken from Bloomsbury and dying in the hospitals of various other districts. But 95 infants dying in the Great Coram Street Home, who had lately been brought from Marylebone and other parishes, have to be subtracted. The corrected deaths of the sub-district amount therefore to 368, or (on the population of 1861) 21.1 per thousand residents. The registered deaths of St. Giles, South, were 768, but of these 284 occurred in the workhouse, of whom only 114 had recently been resident in the houses of St. Giles, South; the other deaths being either among inmates of the house, or among persons brought from the other sub-districts. Exclu ding these, therefore, but adding 58 deaths of persons recently taken from South St. Giles into neighbouring hospitals, the mortality of the sub-district (corrected, that is, to what it would be, if every death occurred in the person's own residence, and if the workhouse were away) amounted to 656, or 34.6 per thousand residents. St. Giles North had 382 registered deaths, to which must be added those of 50 persons taken from the sub-district to the workhouse, and 23 taken to various hospitals with their fatal illnesses upon them. The total of 455 deaths represents a rate of 26.6 per thousand residents. The subjoined statistics show that the relative mortality of the three sub districts in 18(55 was not materially different from that of former years. Death-rate per 1000 in Sub-Districts.* DISTRICTS. 1857. 1858. 1859. 1860. 186l. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. St. George, Blooms bury 18.0 19.8 18.4 18.5 20.5 21.6 19.9 21.6 21.1 St. Giles's, South 35.7 29.2 34.9 34.6 29.1 31.7 32.7 34.8 34.6 St. Giles's, North 28.3 27.7 24.0 24.7 27.9 28.2 27.3 29.2 26.6 Whole District 28.0 25.8 26.0 26.2 27.0 28.9 28.5 31.1 29.6 * Correction has been made for the extra length of the registration years 1857 & 1863. The following table of deaths represent the relative prevalence in sub districts of the more important members of the zymotic class of diseases. Deaths in hospitals are here included, so far as the place is known from whence the patients were brought, and deaths in the Infants' Home are excluded.