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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 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[ SCHEDULE C. ] Mortality of the Parish of Saint Pancras during the four weeks, ending 26th April, 1856. Births during the same period.
| SEX. | AT WHAT AGES ? | FROM WHAT CAUSES ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Totals. | 0 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 30 | 30 to 40 | 40 to 50 | 50 to 60 | 60 to 70 | 70 and over | Low Fevers. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Measles—Hooping Cough. | Convulsions. | Consumption & other Tubercular Diseases | Premature Birth, and Debility. | Bronchitis and Pneumonia. | Diarrhoea. | Violence—Privation & Poison. | Other causes, chiefly Chronic. | ||
| Regent's Park | 20 | 21 | 41 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 96 |
| Tottenham Court | 35 | 31 | 66 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 24 | 64 |
| Gray's Inn | 21 | 21 | 42 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 63 |
| Somers Town | 25 | 26 | 51 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 117 |
| Kentish Town | 18 | 18 | 36 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 88 |
| Camden Town | 19 | 19 | 38 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 68 |
| Workhouse | 12 | 18 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 16 | |
| Fever Hospital | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Middlesex Hospital | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Whole Parish | 156 | 161 | 317 | 125 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 31 | 30 | 37 | 35 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 55 | 15 | 49 | 6 | 12 | 130 | 496 |