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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 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[ Tame C. ]
| Names of Places. | Number of Houses. | Estimated Population. | Number of Deaths in 1859.1 | Number of Deaths in 1856, 1857, and 1858. | Annual average number of Deaths in 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1859. | Average Annual Death-rate per 1000 in 4 years. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kegent'a Park Sub-District. | Little Albany Street and ditto North | 69 | .. | 30 | 56 | 21½ | ||
| Eden Street | 12 | 200 | 9 | 14 | 5# | 29 | ||
| Fitzroy Place, Euston Rd. | 17 | 340 | 49 | 17 | 29 | |||
| Upper ditto | 12 | 240 | 8 | |||||
| Henry St., Hampstead Rd. | 45 | 1000 | 31 | 123 | 38½ | 38.5 | ||
| Mary Street, ditto | 70 | 1000 | 29 | 99 | 32 | 32 | ||
| Mary Place, ditto | 19 | 260 | 10 | 24 | 8½ | 32.7 | ||
| Tottenham Court Sub-District. | Diaper's Place .... | 32 | 600? | 16 | 62 | 194 | 32.? | |
| Gresse Street | 36 | 600 | 8 | 63 | 17} | 29.6 | ||
| Holbrook Court and Place . | 10 | 100 | 3 | 15 | 44 | 45 | ||
| Hertford Street | 20 | 500? | 9 | 53 | 155 | 31 | ||
| Midford Place | 8 | 250 | 8 | 31 | 9} | 39 | ||
| New Inn Yard | 3 houses 8 shops | 100 | 4 | 40 | ||||
| Tottenham Place and ditto Upper | 40 | 1000 | 5 | 97 | 25½ | 25. | ||
| Southampton Court | 9 | 250 | 4 | 11 | 3¾ | 15 | ||
| Somers Town Sub-District. | Drummond Crescent | 56 | 700? | 14 | 46 | 15 | 21-4? | |
| Little George St., Hampstead Road | 50 | 600 | 17 | 61 | 19¾ | 33 | ||
| Hampton Court | 11 | 150 | 6 | 21 | 6¾ | 45 | ||
| Pancras Square | 110 | 487 | 9 | 36 | 11¼ | 23 | ||
| Wellesley Street | 36 | 570 | 13 | 31 | 11 | 19 | ||
| Kentish Town Sub-District. | Charlton King's Road | 30 | .. | 6 | 8 | 34 | ||
| Ferdinand Place | 44 | 470 | 13 | 28 | 21.8 | |||
| Ferdinand Street | 53 | 540 | 18 | 39 | 26.4 | |||
| Haverstock Street | 19 | 288 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 14 | ||
| Hethersett Street | 15 | 260 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 27 | ||
| Preston Street | 42 | 850 | 21 | |||||
| Gray's Inn Sub-District. | Brighton Stree | 28 | 410 | 12 | 32 | 11 | 26.8 | |
| Britannia Street | 63 | 690 | 15 | 57 | 18 | 26.9 | ||
| Brunswick Buildings or Pearl Cottages | 28 | .. | .. | 12 | 3 | .. | ||
| Brunswick Grove | 2 | .. | 2 | 5 | 13 | .. | ||
| Brunswick Square | 40 | 190 | 5 | 8 | 3¼ | 17 | ||
| Burton Crescent, Nos. 1 to 26 | 26 | 155 | 1 | 9 | 16 | |||
| Chads Row | 29 | 323 | 5 | 29 | 8½ | 26 | ||
| Chads Place | 13 | 90 | 4 | 10 | 3½ | 39 | ||
| Charlotte Street | 29 | 284 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 10.6 | ||
| Compton Street and ditto East | 35 | 355 | 9 | 29 | 26.7 | |||
| Compton Place | 24 | 370? | 2 | 29 | 20.9 | |||
| Clark's Place | 12 | 140 | 3 | 8 | 2¾ | 19 | ||
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Gray's Inn Sub-District.
Kentish Town
Sub-District.
Somers Town
Sub-District.
Tottenham Court SubDistrict.
Regent's Park
Sub-District.
Names of Places.
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| Clark's Place
Compton Place
Compton Street and ditto
Bast
Charlotte street . . . .
Chads Place
Chads Row
Burton Crescent, Nos. 1
to 26
Brunswick Square
Brunswick Grove
Brunswick Buildings or
Pearl Cottages
Britannia Street
Brighton Street
Preston Street
Hethersett Street
Haverstock Street
Ferdinand Street
Ferdinand Place
Charlton King's Road
Wellesley Street
Pancras square
Hampton Court
Little George St., Hampstead
Road
Drummond Crescent
Southampton Court
Tottenham Place and ditto
Upper
New Inn Yard
Midford Place
Hertford Street
Holbrook Court and Place .
Gresse Street
Diaper's Place
Mary Place, ditto
Mary Street, ditto
Henry St., Hampstead Rd.
Upper ditto
Fitzrov Place. Euston Rd.
Eden Street
Little Albany Street and
ditto North
12
24
35
29
13
29
26
40
2
28
63
28
42
15
19
53
44
30
36
110
11
50
56
9
40
8 shops
3 houses
8
20
10
36
32
19
70
45
12
17
12
69
Number of Houses.
140
370?
355
284
90
323
155
190
..
..
690
410
850
260
288
540
470
..
570
487
150
600
700
250
1000
100
250
500
100
600
600
260
1000
1000
240
340
200
Estimated Population.
3
2
9
2
4
5
1
5
2
..
15
12
21
8
5
18
13
6
13
9
6
17
14
4
5
1
8
9
3
8
16
10
29
31
8
11
9
30
Number of Deaths
in 1859 *
8
29
29
10
10
29
9
8
5
12
57
32
20
11
39
28
8
31
36
21
61
46
11
97
15
31
53
15
63
62
24
99
123
49
14
56
Number of Deaths in
1856, 1857, and 1858.
2¾
7¾
9½
3
3½
8½
2½
8¼
1¾
3
18
11
7
4
14¼
10¼
3½
11
11¼
6¾
19¾
15
3¾
25½
4
9¾
15½
4½
17¾
19½
8½
32
38½
17
5¾
21½
Annual average number
of Deaths in 1856, 1857,
1858, and 1859.
I 19
20.9
26.7
10.6
39
26
16
17
26.9
26.8
27
14
26.4
21.8
19
23
45
33
21.4
15
25.5
40
39 1
31
45
29.6
32.5
32.7
32
38.5
29
29
Average Annual Deathrate
per 1000 in 4 years.
* This column includes the deaths of those who went from these Streets to the
Workhouse, and died there soon afterwards.