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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 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[SCHEDULEA.] St. Pancras, Middlesex,—Table for the Four Weeks ending 26th day of Dec., 1857.
| LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | Population in 1851. | Births. | Deaths From all causes. | From all causes under 5 years of age. | From Small Pox. | From Measles. | From Scarlatina. | From Hooping Cough. | From Diarrhœa. | From Low Fever. | | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M.&F. | M. | F. | M. & F. | ||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 31918 | 45 | 50 | 95 | 25 | 31 | 56 | 25 | .. | .. | 2 | 7 | i | |
| Tottenham Court | 27813 | 22 | 30 | 52 | 21 | .. | 3 | 3 | 2 | .. | i | ||||
| University College Hospital | 145 | 500 | 38 | 34 | 72 | 6 | 3 | 9 | |||||||
| Strand Union | 120 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26402 | 35 | 34 | 69 | 18 | 24 | 42 | 18 | .. | 4 | 2 | •• | 1 | i |
| Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 3 | .. | 3 | |||||||||||
| Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 39 | 44 | 83 | 27 | 39 | 66 | 24 | .. | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
| Camden Town | 19515 | 13 | 21 | 34 | 15 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | |||||
| St. Pancras Workhouse | 171 | 1600 | 41 | 26 | 67 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 3 | ||||||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 57 | 49 | 106 | 32 | 33 | 65 | 23 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | ||
| Middlesex Hospital (out of the Parish) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 255 | 237 | 492 | 175 | 204 | 379 | 134 | .. | 16 | 12 | l4 | 2 | 10 | ||