Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Disease. | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1871-80. | Propor-tion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1871-80. | 1881 | Proportion of Deaths to l060 Deaths in 1881. |
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Small Pox | 448 | 58 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 129 | 94 | 19 | 18 | 79.5 | 15.5 | 84 | 16.4 |
Measles | 105 | 105 | 221 | 64 | 82 | 117 | 143 | 48 | 129 | 58 | 107.2 | 21.0 | 172 | 34.2 |
Scarlet Fever | 95 | 70 | 17 | 95 | 220 | 137 | 89 | 138 | 144 | 156 | 116.1 | 22.6 | 180 | 36.0 |
Diphtheria | 37 | 16 | 38 | 35 | 55 | 38 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 32.3 | 6.3 | 70 | 14.0 |
Whooping Cough | 158 | 259 | 212 | 121 | 232 | 198 | 141 | 217 | 154 | 293 | 198.5 | 38.8 | 122 | 24.2 |
Typhus Fever | 20 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9.5 | 1.8 | 1 | 0.2 |
Enteric Fever | 60 | 52 | 58 | 38 | 35 | 60 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 43 | 52.0 | 10.1 | 66 | 13.2 |
Simple Continued Fever | 23 | 16 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12.4 | 2.4 | 8 | 1.6 |
Diarrhœa | 236 | 235 | 253 | 222 | 178 | 239 | 155 | 229 | 118 | 204 | 206.9 | 40.1 | 211 | 42.1 |
Total | 1,181 | 825 | 824 | 613 | 828 | 823 | 767 | 816 | 655 | 811 | 814.4 | 158.6 | 914 | 181.9 |
London | 19,676 | 12,874 | 11,549 | 11,352 | 13,518 | 12,696 | 12,380 | 14,857 | 12,256 | 13,677 | 13,483.5 | 166.3 | 13,811 | 170.3 |