[Report 1857-1858].

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1858
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    ventible diseases in Bermondsey, taking the mortality from typhus fever, in the Metropolitan districts, so that a correct conclusion may be arrived at 1st.—OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT. In Bermondsey the deaths from typhus were, in the year 1857, of the population - - - - - 1 in 1,925 Christchurch and St Saviour's - - 1 „ 1,116 St. George's - - - - - - 1 „ 1,328 Newington - - - - - - 1 l,580 Lambeth, including Brixton and Norwood - - 1 „ 1,514 Clapham, with Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, and Streatham - - - - - - 1 „ 1,637 Rotherhithe - - - - - - -1 „ 1,780 Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich; the Hospital and Convict Prisons in some degree account for this high rate of mortality - - - - - 1 „ 801 Plumstead, Eltham, Lea, Lewisham, and Sydenham - 1 „ 1,201 Thus then, as regards the southern districts, we stand the first on the list, that is, we have had fewer deaths from typhus fever during 1857, than the suburban districts of Kennington, Norwood, Wandsworth, Putney, and Streatham; or our neighbouring parishes, St. George's, Newington, Lambeth, or Rotherhithe. 2nd.—IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT. The proportion of deaths from typhus fever, were as follows:— Shorediteh - - - - - -1 in 1,157 Hackney - - - - - - -1 „ 869 Whitechapel - - - - - -1 „ 666 St. George's-in-the-East - - - - - 1 1,099 Bow and Poplar - - - - - -1 „ 813 The favourable position we occupy in relation to the Eastern Districts, is too marked to require any comment. 3rd.—IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICT. In St. Giles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury - - l in 1,505 St. Anne's Soho - - - - - - 1 „ 1,425 Holborn - - - - - - - 1 2,119 Clerkenwell - - - - - - 1 „ 1,378 St. Luke's - - - - - - 1 1,601 East London - - - - - - 1 „ 1,387 West London (two Prisons, Hospital, and Workhouse) - 1 „ 359 City of London (Proper) - - - - 1 3,101 In this division it will be seen that Holborn, and the City of London, stand each in rather a better position than Bermondsey. As regards the former, it may be remarked, that the calculation is made from the census of 1851, since then we have increased in population, probably to the extent of about 10,000, while in Holborn, the population has in all likelihood diminished from the destruction of many habitations for the various local improvements. Of the latter, the City proper, there are so few people who now sleep in it at all, that any approach to the real resident population is out of the question. *Two Hospitals influence the proportion here.