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8.
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING OCTOBER, 1856,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health, for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
November 5th, 1856.] [No. 7.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen—
The number of deaths registered during the five weeks that ended on the
1st of November was 353. From this number 12 must be deducted for deaths
occurring in University College and the Royal Free Hospitals of persons from
other districts—giving 341. The weekly average thus obtained is 68.2, which
is less than the averages of the three immediately preceding reports.
October is usually a healthy month in London, and the October of this year
has been more healthy than usual. The average number of deaths in St. Pancras
for the corresponding five weeks of the past ten years was 332.7, which, if
raised for increase of population, gives 366. Diseases of the zymotic class were
fatal to 83 persons.
It will be seen by comparing the table of mortality (schedule A) with the
corresponding table of my last report that Fever is slightly on the increase,
having been fatal to 18 persons instead of 9: Diarrhoea has diminished (13 instead
of 24); Scarlet-fever has increased from 9 to 14.