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St Pancras 1856

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: [SCHEDULE A. ] St. Pancras, Middlesex.—Deaths during the Four Weeks ending 27th day of September, 1856.Births during the same period.

[SCHEDULE A. ] St. Pancras, Middlesex.—Deaths during the Four Weeks ending 27th day of September, 1856.Births during the same period.

LOCALITIES.Area in Acres.No. of Inhabited Houses.Population.M.F.Deaths in Hospitals.TOTALS.AT WHAT AGES?FROM WHAT CAUSES ?
0 to 33 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3030 to 4040 to 5050 to 6060 to 7070 and over.Low Fevers.Acute Diarrhœa (not of Infants.)Diarrhœa of Infants.Erysipelas, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever.Scarlet FeverSmall Pox.Measles, Hooping Cough, and Croup.Bronchitis and Pneumonia of Infants.Convulsions of Infants.Consumption and other tubercular diseases.Violence, Privation, and Poison.Premature Birth and Debility.Other diseases chiefly Chronic.M.F.Totals.
MF.M.F.M.F
Regent's Park4273575319181921....19214022221....34132114......2517..415253964
Tottenham Court Road1452586279331724241929482224••1144..28....4......34344520293362
Strand Union••••50036....3692........21..13......1............5••••3
Gray's Inn Road15529462652326731291847115433542631114••6....22124213312758
Somers Town1843731356413026..33029592563112732455..312..86791116494190
Camden Town171249819515151112161228143..• •31111212..1••....21242410303161
Workhouse....160064....64103..............115..••1............1..26
Kentish Town16343248233261625....16254122..11..134213..••4..1231272415524499
The whole Parish2716185841669561321346101381442821211814108122318141925922219218191749132298219215434

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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
This List includes Seven Persons who died in the Middlesex Hospital. Two deaths in the University College Hospital, and Two in the Royal Free
Hospital, were from other Parishes.