Unhealthiness of London, and the necessity of remedial measures; : being a lecture delivered at the Western and Eastern Literary and Scientific Institutions, Leicester Square, and Hackney Road. / By Hector Gavin.

  • Gavin, Hector.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Unhealthiness of London, and the necessity of remedial measures; : being a lecture delivered at the Western and Eastern Literary and Scientific Institutions, Leicester Square, and Hackney Road. / By Hector Gavin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    responsibility to the beneficent God who, in His goodness, placed him in a rank of life above, or in a situation remote from the operation of, the fatal influences which it has been my endeavour to lay before you. REGISTRATION DISTRICTS. Total Loss of Money value of Productive Labour, at 10s. per week Men, and 5s. per week Women, say 7s. GcL. per week toeach Adult Individual. Total Loss on the Year’s Deaths in Sickness. Funerals. Labour. Total. £ £ £ £ £ Camberwell .... — — — —- Greenwich. 34 14,252 2,545 46,002 62,799 Hackney. — — — —* — Kensington and Chelsea 13 2,912 520 17,368 20,800 St. Martin-in-tlie-Fields 85 1,820 325 28,390 30,535 St. George, Hanover Sq. 125 840 150 102,250 103,240 Islington. 47 — — 25,333 25,333 Stepney. 31 4,284 765 32,798 37,847 St. James, Westminster 70 — — 27,790 27,790 Kotherhithe .... 26 2,100 375 4,784 7,259 Marylebone .... 97 15,820 2,825 183,039 201,684 Poplar. 73 924 165 25,842 26,931 Strand. 92 2,016 360 47,932 50,308 Pancras. 88 11,200 2,000 143,616 156,816 St. Giles. 83 6,328 1,130 57,602 65,060 Westminster . . . . 123 5,656 1,010 89,913 96,579 Shoreditch .... 47 14,756 2,635 51,982 69,373 Lambeth. 62 4,900 875 79,422 85,197 East and West London 104 21,168 3,780 121,472 146,420 Whitechapel .... 114 20,461 3,655 131,328 155,444 St. George, Southwark. 83 6,608 1,180 48,804 56,592 City of London . . . 123 — — 67,158 67,158 Newington .... 62 1,764 315 34,844 36,923 Clerkenwell .... 75 6,356 1,135 49,350 56,841 St. George-in-the-East . 73 7,532 1,345 38,982 47,859 Bermondsey .... 68 3,696 660 26,996 31,352 Bethnal Green . . . 31 4,648 830 23,157 28,635 Holborn. 46 6,300 1,125 21,390 28,815 St. Saviour & St. Olave 179 23,436 4,185 197,079 224,700 St. Luke. 80 4,732 845 38,560 44,137 Total . . . — 194,509 34,735 1,763,183 1,992,427 Average . . 75 — — — —