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9
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING NOVEMBER, 1856,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
December 8th, 1856.] [No. 8.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen—
The number of deaths registered during the four weeks, ending November
29th, was 344. From this number 4 must be deducted, for 3 deaths in University
College Hospital and 1 in the Royal Free Hospital, of persons belonging to
other districts, giving 340. So that the average weekly mortality, during the
month, has been 85.
The average number of deaths in St. Pancras for the corresponding four
weeks of the ten years 1845-1855 was 286, which, if raised for increase of
population, gives 315—being 25 less than the present return.
The diseases of the respiratory organs have, during the recent cold
weather, been especially fatal; the number of deaths from these affections have
amounted to 88, of which 16 have been children under 3 years of age.
The above number does not include the deaths from croup, of which
there have been 7; nor those from hooping cough (7); nor those from consumption
(48).