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6
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING JULY, 1856,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health, for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
July 30th, 1856.] [No. 4.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen,
During the four weeks, ending July 26th, there were registered in St. Pancras
302 deaths, being at the rate of 75.5 weekly. This return exhibits a less favorable
state of the public health than was indicated in my last report. The average
number of deaths during the corresponding period of the ten years, 1846-55,
was 271, which, if corrected for increase of population, gives 298, being a little
below the present return.
Typhus fever has been a little less fatal than in the three previous months,
but has still numbered 11 victims. Diarrhoea is on the increase, but is not more
prevalent than is usual at this season of the year; it has destroyed 15 infants
and 4 older persons. Of the epidemic diseases measles has been fatal to the
largest number (18), whilst 12 children have died from hooping cough.
Erom the table (Schedule B) it will be seen that measles and diarrhoea have
been the most common diseases occurring in the practice of the District Medical
Officers. Low fever is a little less prevalent than it lias been. Several cases of
English cholera have occurred, but no real cases of epidemic or Asiatic cholera
have come to my knowledge.
In the Workhouse there have been 23 deaths. The average number of inmates
during the month has been 1,354.
The following table shows the number of deaths in the several sub-districts