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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. ]
| LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | No. of Inhabited Houses. | Population. | M. | F. | Deaths in Hospitals. | TOTALS. | AT WHAT AGES? | FROM WHAT CAUSES ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Influenza. | Diarrhœa of Infants. | Erysipelas, Pyœmia, and Puerperal Fever. | Scarlet Fever. | Small 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. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M.F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 3575 | 31918 | 36 | 25 | 1 | 36 | 26 | 62 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .. | 4 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 56 | 32 | 88 | ||
| Tottenham Court Road | 145 | 2586 | 27933 | 25 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 26 | 53 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | •• | 2 | •• | .. | .. | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 38 | 34 | 72 |
| Strand Union | .. | 500 | 5 | 12 | .. | .. | 5 | 12 | 17 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | •• | .. | •• | .. | 6 | 1 | .. | 9 | |||||
| Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 2946 | 26523 | 23 | 24 | •• | 1 | 23 | 25 | 48 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | •• | 1 | .. | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 40 | 31 | 71 | |||
| Somers Town | 184 | 3731 | 35641 | 28 | 22 | 2 | 30 | 22 | 52 | 25 | 3 | 1 | .. | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11 | 10 | 2 | 7 | .. | 3 | 16 | 56 | 42 | 98 | ||
| Camden Town | 171 | 2498 | 19515 | 10 | 12 | .. | 1 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | •• | 2 | 2 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | •• | •• | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | •• | 1 | 12 | 21 | 54 | |
| Workhouse | .. | 1600 | 12 | 18 | 2 | .. | 14 | 18 | 32 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | .. | •• | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | •• | 4 | 21 | ||||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 3248 | 23326 | 33 | 24 | .. | .. | 33 | 24 | 57 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | .. | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 45 | 46 | 91 | |
| The whole Parish | 2716 | 18584 | 166956 | 172 | 161 | 6 | 5 | 178 | 166 | 344 | 146 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 28 | 24 | 16 | 26 | 46 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 45 | 16 | 48 | 13 | 23 | 142 | 268 | 206 | 474 |
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,
Three deaths in University College Hospital were of persons from other parishes. One death in the Royal Free Hospital was of a female belonging to Saint
Andrew's, Holborn. The Table includes two deaths in the Fever Hospital.