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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 A. ] Mortality of the Parish of St. Pancras, during the Five Weeks ending the 31st day of May, 1856. Births
| AT WHAT AGES? | FROM WHAT CAUSES ? | During the same period. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | No. of Inhabited Houses. | Population. | Deaths in Hospitals. | total. | 0 to 3 | 3 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. | Dysentery and Acute Diarrhoea (not of Infants.) | Diarrhoea of Infants. | Scarlet Fever. | Small Pox. | Erysipelas, Pyaemia, and Puerperal Fever. | Measles, Hooping Cough i and Croup. | Bronchitis and Pneumonia of Infants. | Convulsions of Infants. | Consumption and other tubercular diseases. | v o-encc, Privation, and on. | premature Birth and Debility. | Other diseases chiefly chronic.j | Total. | |||||||
| M. | F. | M | F. | M. | F. | M.F | M. | F. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 3575 | 31918 | 25 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 21 | 48 | 13 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 40 | 48 | 88 |
| Tottenham Court Road | 145 | 2586 | 27933 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 36 | 23 | 59 | 24 | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 42 | 43 | 85 |
| Strand Union | .. | .. | 500 | 7 | 4 | .. | .. | 7 | 4 | 11 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 6 | |||
| Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 2946 | 26523 | 17 | 29 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 32 | 52 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 1 | .. | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 34 | 34 | 68 |
| Somers Town | 184 | 3731 | 35641 | 33 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 35 | 65 | 28 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 54 | 53 | 107 |
| Camden Town | 171 | 2498 | 19515 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 35 | 12 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | .. | 14 | 35 | 33 | 68 |
| Workhouse | .. | .. | 1600 | 10 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 24 | 36 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | 6 | 21 | |||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 3248 | 23326 | 20 | 26 | • • | 1 | 20 | 27 | 47 | 24 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 59 | 66 | 125 |
| The whole Parish | 2716 | 18584 | 166956 | 159 | 172 | 17 | 9 | 176 | 181 | 357 | 136 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 24 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 34 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 26 | 16 | 75 | 18 | 19 | 147 | 264 | 277 | 541 |
N.B.—The Divisions are those of the Registrar General, which do not quite correspond with any other divisions. The numbers of houses and of the population
are derived from the last census in 1851,
Twelve of the deaths in Hospitals were of people from other Parishes:—7 in the University College Hospital—5 in the Royal Free Hospital.