Quarterly report on the sanitary condition of the parish of Saint Luke, Middlesex. July, August, and September, 1856 / by F.W. Pavy.

  • Pavy, F. W. (Frederick William), 1829-1911.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Quarterly report on the sanitary condition of the parish of Saint Luke, Middlesex. July, August, and September, 1856 / by F.W. Pavy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The Districts adjoining St. Luke’s give East and West London 2.58 Shoreditch 2.40 Clerkenwell 2.31 Islington 1.84 Hackney 1.73 In the above tables tbe Parish of Luke, although indeed standing bad enough in a sanitary point of view, yet it occupies even a rather better position, than in reality is its due ; on account of our Workhouse being situated within the Shoreditch precincts and its mortality being added in the Registrar General’s returns to the numbers of that parish, notwithstanding that they belong to our inhabitants. In tbe following statistics, however, for the year 1855, I am enabled to correct this error, and therefore to give a more accurate representation of the relative mortality of our inhabi- tants. Mortality during 1855. During the year 1855 there were 61,506 deaths in London. And, if the population of London has increased since the census of 1851, at the same rate at which it increased during the ten years that preceded it, viz:—1.97 per cent, annually, the number of inhabitants, at the commencement of 1855, may be computed at about 2,540,000. The 61,506 deaths amongst 2,540,000 London inhabitants, gives twenty-four deaths to 1000 living, or 2.40 per cent, of mortality for the year; or, again, one death to every forty- one persons living. During the year 1855, there were 1286 deaths registered for the parish of Saint Luke and 168 for the Workhouse of Saint Luke, standing in Shoreditch parish. Add these figures, and they give 1454 deaths to be placed against our population, at the com- mencement of the year 1855, which, calculating that the increase has gone on since the census of 1851, in the same ratio as during the ten years that preceded it, may be estimated at about 55,960,