Volume 3

St. Andrews Medical Graduates' Association : transactions, [1869-1871] / edited by W. Sedgwick.

Date:
1870-1872
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Credit: St. Andrews Medical Graduates' Association : transactions, [1869-1871] / edited by W. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEATHS PROM DIPHTHERIA IN METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS, 1851-61. UNIONS. No. oi casos in ten years. Population. 149 152977 30 59989 St. George's, Hanover square 88 80501 Westminster 47 66910 St, MnTtin's-in-thp- Fields 11 23665 13 35866 ATnvvl plinn p 115 159688 Ho TYl HQf Pfl n 14 15446 170 175872 149 125335 TT „ 1 DO / VOOZ St. Giles's 36 54145 19 43720 41 45741 41 65229 St. Luke's 11 55565 15 42546 UNIONS. West London London, City Shoreditch Bethnall Green Whitechapel St. George's East .. Stepney & Mile-End Old Town Poplar St. Saviour's St. Olave's Bermondsey St. George's, S Newington Lambeth Wandsworth Camberwell llotherhithe Greenwich Lewisham No. of cases in ten years 16 20 93 39 30 40 68 45 14 15 42 35 89 147 60 53 7 86 49 Population 27968 50740 119310 97647 79364 48634 110206 63189 35950 19216 5324] 53667 73518 150684 59604 63077 21155 113518 50296 On glancing at the above figures it will be seen that the number of deaths from diphtheria in these districts does not bear the same amount of irregularity as those in the provinces. Chelsea, which is lower than Kensington, has proportionately nearly half the number of deaths. St. Martin's-in the-Fields, St. James's West- minster, the Strand, East London, London City, Whitechapel, St. Saviour's Southwark, and Rotherhithe, have the smallest number in proportion to the population; the last named place, one of the most likely localities for diphtheria, if modern writers are to be credited, least of all. So that, looking to soil, height above high water mark, and density of population, the inference is, that, as regards London, these causes have little to do with the production of the disease. The following are the selected unions in England and Wales, show- ing deaths from diphtheria in ten years, 1851 to 1861, with the amount of population. Examples are taken from the Registrar General's eleven divisions as they come in succession. 1. London (already quoted). 2. South Eastern. 3. South Midland. 4. Eastern. 5. Southwestern. 6. West Midland. 7. North Midland. 8. North Western. 9. York- shire. 10. Northern. 11. Wales (including Monmouthshire). On referring to the map it will be seen that I have noted the ge< 1( gical formation, with the number of deaths in each union.