Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department
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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Table 5a.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1887 to 1896, and in the year 1897.
Disease. | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | Number of Daaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1887-96 | Number of Deaths in 1897. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1887-96. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deathts in 1897. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 1 | 0.4 | .. | ||||||
Measles | 145 | 206 | 86 | 131 | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 144-8 | 89 | 30.0 | 19.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 58 | 52 | 28 | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 49-7 | 24 | 10.0 | 5.3 |
Diphtheria and Mem- ) branous Croup | 59 | 72 | 62 | 141 | 80 | 11.4 | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 108-1 | 112 | 22-4 | 24.7 |
Whooping Cough | 199 | 142 | 108 | 140 | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 131.2 | 122 | 27-3 | 26.9 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 28 | 57 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | •29 | 32.0 | 38 | 6.6 | 8.4 |
Simple Continued Fever | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | I | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.6 | .. | 0.1 | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 229 | 114 | 183 | 174 | 158 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 172.5 | 262 | 35.8 | 57.8 |
Totals | 719 | 645 | 498 | 646 | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 641.0 | 647 | 133.1 | 142.7 |