General report upon the sanitary condition of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, during the year 1856 / by A.W. Barclay.

  • Saint Luke (Chelsea, London, England : Parish)
Date:
1857
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Credit: General report upon the sanitary condition of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, during the year 1856 / by A.W. Barclay. 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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    TABLE C. Shewing the Death Rate for each Registration District as effected by Epidemic Diseases, and by Diarrhoea. Districts. Population. Deaths exclusive of epi- demic causes. Pei- thousand. Deaths from all causes except diarrhoea. Per thousand. Ratio of general mortality South. 17,781 297 16.7 336 18.9 20.2 North West. 16,939 301 17-7 347 20.5 21.5 North East. 17,359 291 16.7 334 19.2 19,6 Kensal. 2,460 35 14.2 42 17.0 21.1 The first column of this Table gives the population at the census ; the next two columns exhibit the deaths, and the ratio of mortality in each district, when those produced by epidemic causes are excluded; the fourth and fifth columns include the deaths of this class, writh the exception only of diarrhoea in all its forms; the sixth repeats the general death rate for each district, as given in the pre- ceding Table. The results are most striking. Kensal is by far the most healthy when we consider only the more ordinary causes of mortality: fevers, measles, scarlatina, and hooping-cough add to each of the districts somewhat between 2 and 3 deaths per 1,000, but diarrhoea alone, which is excluded in the 5th column, adds, in the 6th column, to the mortality of Kensal more than 4 per 1,000, while in the North-east district it adds less than | per 1,000. To the causes of this difference I have already adverted. In each of the foregoing Tables, the deaths occurring in Public Institutions have been excluded, as my object was to compare the salubrity of different districts. In the General Tables of Mortality at the end of this Report, will be found the statistics of deaths as occurring at various ages, and for each sex, throughout the parish ; to these I have added the particulars belonging to each of the Workhouses, and to the Royal Hospital, in order that persons desirous of working out any further deductions may have the oppor- tunity of doing so. I will only remark that the death rate, as might be anticipated in so poor a parish, bears heavily on the infant population; and, on the other hand, that there is a very respectable minority which survives the ordinary limit of “ three- score years and ten.” The deaths actually registered would give a much too favorable view of the salubrity of the parish, because of the constant influx of old men to tlie Royal Hospital; and to get at the truth in this matter, the population and deaths of this Iusti-
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