Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE II. Deaths from Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Hooping Cough, Diarrhoea, and Typhus in the several Sub-Districts of Saint Pancras during the year 1856.
Sub-Districts. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus.* | Sum of the Six Diseases. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Regent's Park | . . | 16 | 16 | 25 | 23 | 32 | 112 | ||
Tottenham Court | 5 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 29 | 29 | 109 | ||
Gray's Inn | 2 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 26 | 23 | 110 | ||
Somers Town | 4 | 25 | 19 | 34 | 17 | 34 | 133 | ||
Camden Town | 2 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 22 | 41 | 116 | ||
Kentish Town | 5 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 24 | 13 | 87 | ||
Totals for 1856 | 18 | 89 | 95 | 152 | 141 | 172 | 667 | ||
Totals for 1855 | 42 | 53 | 229 | 167 | 120 | 121 | 732 |
• In this column are included 32 Deaths in the London Fever Hospital.