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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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TABLE (No. I.) FOR AUTUMN QUARTER, 1857.
| Area in Acres. | Population in 1851. | From all causes under5 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 | 145 | 134 | 279 | 85 | 78 | 163 | 76 | .. | 1 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 5 |
| Tottenham Court | 145 | 27813 | 1 | 65 | 63 | 128 | 55 | .. | 3 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 4 | ||
| University College Hospital Strand Union | 500 | 134 | 112 | 246 | 17 | 13 | 30 | ||||||||
| 120 | 22 | 24 | 46 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Gray's Inn Road Royal Free Hospital . | 155 | 26462 | 1107 | 48 | 71 6 | 119 19 | 55 | .. | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 60 | 99 | 206 | 13 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 144 | 165 | 309 | 82 | 111 | 193 | 89 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 1128 | 102 | 220 | 39 | 56 | 95 | 52 | .. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |
| 1600 | ?fi | 38 | 64 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 195 | 153 | 348 | 83 | 86 | 169 | 73 | .. | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 |
| Hospital out of the Parish | 2 | 1 | 3 | •• | .. | •• | .. | .. | •• | 2 | |||||
| Totals | 853 | 765 | 1618 | 482 | 547 | 1029 | 414 | 2 | 36 34 | 52 | 18 | 34 | |||
| Corresponding Quarter in 1856 | 786 | 702 | 1488 | 489 | 529 | 1018 | 436 | 2 | 26 | .. | 23 | 47 | |||