[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Newington, St. Mary].

  • St. Mary, Newington (London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
1901
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    6 for houses let in lodgings has led to great licence in house-farming and house-crowding. The prevailing idea held by some landlords that because a house is on the register it is thereby degraded is, I am sure, a mistaken one. It must be to the benefit of landlords to have tenants taught cleanly habits, and by frequent inspection to protect the property from what in many cases is wanton destruction, whilst it is distinctly advantageous to persons living in many of our houses, and especially tenemented houses, to have them placed under these by-laws, by which they are kept in a better sanitary condition. The death-rate is lower than that for the last year, and although it is some 3 per 1,000 more than the rate for London as a whole, yet when the character of the district is taken into consideration it cannot, I think, be looked upon as unsatisfactory. The Zymotic disease rates, with the exception of that for Enteric Fever, were less than those of last year. Upon the whole the health of the district for the year may be said to have been satisfactory. Population. The number of population at each Census since 1841 was — Population, Rateable Value. 1841 54,693 — 1851 64,816 — 1861 82,157 £203,059 1871 88,691 £304,736 1881 107,831 £405,396 1891 115,663 £461,723 1896 120,939 £494,695 The Registrar-General's estimate of the population at the middle of 1900 was 125,138. The percentage of the population dying away from home in the Workhouse Infirmary and the various public hospitals was 29.3 for the year.