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 5b.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the 10 years 1887 to 1896, and in the year 1897.
Diseases. | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1887-96. | Number of Deaths in 1897. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1887-96. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1897. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | 2.1 | .. | 0.4 | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 58 | 52 | 28 | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 49.7 | 24 | 10.0 | 5.3 |
Diphtheria | 59 | 72 | 62 | 141 | 80 | 114 | 187 | 117 | 125 | 94 | 108.1 | 109 | 22.4 | 24. 7 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | |||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | . . |
Enteric Fever | 28 | 57 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 32.0 | 38 | 6.6 | 8.4 |
Fever, Simple &Continued | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.6 | .. | 0.1 | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 11 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 9.9 | 6 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
Cholera | .. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 1.4 | 2 | 0.3 | 04 |
Erysipelas | 28 | 21 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 17.8 | 13 | 3.7 | 2.9 |
Totals | 185 | 221 | 139 | 239 | 164 | 230 | 333 | 238 | 234 | 183 | 221.6 | 195 | 46.0 | 43.0 |