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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 9 C.
ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS.
TABLE shewing the proportion of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases and certain other Diseases, and the proportion of Deaths at various Ages to 1000 Total Deaths, in the Sub-Districts for the year 1896. Also the proportion of Deaths under one year, five years, and at all ages to 1000 Births.
| Sub-Districts. | Total Number of Deaths, 1896. | Notifiable Infectious Diseases. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Under one Year of | One and under Five Years of Age. | Total under Five Years of Age. | Five and under 65 Years of Age. | Sixty-five Years of Age and over. | Per 1000 Births. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Number of Births, 1896. | Deaths under One Year. | Deaths at One and under Five Years. | All Deaths under Five Years. | Deaths at all Ages. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 688 | 39.3 | 26.2 | 27.6 | 40.7 | 5.8 | .. | 110.5 | 161.4 | 59.6 | 24.7 | 504.6 | 251.6 | 113.4 | 365.0 | 420.3 | 215.3 | 1049 | 165.0 | 74.3 | 239.3 | 655.9 |
| Tottenham Court | 459 | 24.0 | 30.5 | 15.3 | 43.6 | 2.2 | .. | 124.2 | 176.5 | 47.9 | 41.4 | 494.7 | 243.5 | 93.7 | 342.2 | 470.8 | 187.3 | 668 | 170.7 | 64.4 | 235.1 | 682.8 |
| Gray's Inn Lane | 628 | 35.0 | 71.7 | 8.0 | 52.6 | .. | .. | 124.2 | 180.1 | 33.5 | 35.0 | 460.5 | 434 2 | 152.9 | 387.1 | 423.8 | 1896 | 851 | 172.8 | 112.8 | 285.6 | 738.1 |
| Somers Town | 728 | 42.6 | 22.0 | 37.1 | 41.2 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 89.3 | 197.9 | 30.2 | 42.6 | 493.3 | 292.7 | 136.0 | 428.7 | 404.0 | 167.6 | 1057 | 201.6 | 93.6 | 295.2 | 688.9 |
| Camden Town | 282 | 35.5 | 7.1 | 14.2 | 63.8 | 3.5 | .. | 99.3 | 196.8 | 46.1 | 28.4 | 507.2 | 301.5 | 92.2 | 393.7 | 443.4 | 163.1 | 447 | 1901 | 58.3 | 248.4 | 631.0 |
| Kentish Town | 1675 | 48.9 | 20.1 | 35.2 | 52.5 | 7.2 | .. | 98.0 | 149.9 | 53.1 | 38.8 | 495.6 | 270.5 | 120.6 | 391.1 | 409.5 | 199.4 | 2970 | 152.5 | 68.0 | 220.5 | 564.1 |
| St. Pancras | 4460 | 41.1 | 29.2 | 27.1 | 48.7 | 4.5 | 0.22 | 104.9 | 169.2 | 46.7 | 36.3 | 492.3 | 265.8 | 122.0 | 387.9 | 420.7 | 191.7 | 7042 | 168.3 | 77.3 | 245.6 | 633.5 |
| London | 83511 | 57.1 | 44.2 | 35.2 | 38.6 | 4.8 | .. | 93.2 | 161.1 | .. | .. | .. | 261.8 | 164.7 | 426.5 | .. | .. | 135796 | 160.9 | 101.2 | 262.1 | 614.9 |