London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Pancras 1896

Forty-first annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the vital and sanitary condition of the Borough of Saint Pancras, London

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Table: Under five years of agethe number of deaths and the proportion per 1000 births and per 1000 total deaths were as follows: —

Under five years of agethe number of deaths and the proportion per 1000 births and per 1000 total deaths were as follows: —

Sub-Districts.Number of Deaths under 5 Years.Per 1000 Births.Per 1000 Deaths at all Ages.
Regent's Park251239.3365.0
Tottenham Court157235.1342.2
Gray's Inn Lane243285.6387.1
Somers Town312295.2428.7
Camden Town111248.4393.7
Kentish Town655220.5391.1
St. Pancras1729245.6387.9
London35599262.1426.5

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CAUSES OF DEATH.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Principal Zymotic Diseases.
Small-pox Small-pox
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup Diphtheria
Typhus Fever Typhus Fever
Typhoid or Enteric Fever Enteric Fever
Continued Fever Continued Fever
Relapsing Fever Measles
Puerperal Fever Whooping Cough
Cholera Diarrhœa
Erysipelas Dysentery
At the end of the Report, in Table 7c, will be found set out the number of
deaths under 5 years of age, and at 5 years upwards, from each of the notifiable
Infectious Diseases in the respective Registration Sub-Districts, and the entire
District of St. Pancras. In Table 8 in a similar manner the deaths from the
non-notifiable "principal zymotic diseases" will be found set out. From these
two Tables the mortality of the respective diseases, and of each of the groups,
have been obtained.