Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Table 5a.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1886 to 1895, and in the year 1896.
Disease. | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1886-95. | Number of Deaths in 1896. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1886-95 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1896. |
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Small-pox | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2.3 | .. | 0.5 | .. |
Measles | 127 | 145 | 206 | 86 | 131 | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 144.5 | 130 | 29.8 | 29.2 |
Scarlet Fever | 26 | 58 | 52 | 28 | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 48.6 | 37 | 10.0 | 8.3 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 44 | 59 | 72 | 62 | 141 | 80 | 114 | 199 | 124 | 181 | 102.6 | 99 | 21.1 | 22.2 |
Whooping Cough | 120 | 199 | 142 | 108 | 140 | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 131.1 | 121 | 27.0 | 27.1 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 29 | 28 | 57 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 32.0 | 29 | 6.6 | 6.5 |
Simple Continued Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.8 | .. | 0.2 | .. |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 266 | 229 | 114 | 183 | 174 | 158 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 177.4 | 217 | 36.5 | 48.7 |
Totals | 616 | 719 | 645 | 498 | 616 | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 639.3 | 633 | 131.6 | 142.0 |