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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Area near the Hampstead Small Pox Hospital.
| No. of houses in each ring | Total No. of houses invaded. | Houses invaded per cent. of total houses. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 Hospital closed. | 18S1 Hospital closed. | 1882 Hospital close!. | 1883 Hospital closed. | 1884 Hospital open. | 1880 Hospital closed. | 1881 Hospital closed. | 1882 Hospital closed. | 1883 Hospital closed. | 1884 Hospital open. | ||
| Quarter mile radius | Not in St. Pancras. | ||||||||||
| Half mile radius | 1118 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 75 | .00 | 1.4 | .00 | .00 | 6.7 |
| Three Quarters mile radius | 1791 | 4 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 57 | .22 | 2.0 | .16 | .00 | 3.1 |
| One mile radius | 3007 | 5 | 37 | 4 | 2 | 41 | .16 | 1.2 | .13 | .06 | 1.3 |
| Special area of one mile round Hospital | 5916 | 9 | 89 | 7 | 2 | 173 | .15 | 1.5 | .12 | .03 | 2.9 |
| Rest of Parish | 18739 | 45 | 307 | 26 | 10 | 178 | .24 | 1.6 | .14 | .05 | 0.9 |
It should be stated that the number of St. Pancras houses in each of the circles has been counted with as much care as
possible, and the total number of houses in each circle in 1884 is made the basis of calculation. As a matter of fact there has been
some increase of houses between the years 1880 and 1881, but this has been examined and is not found to be sufficient to disturb
the results.
The number of houses in the "rest of Parish" is the total number of inhabited houses in the Parish at the Census of 1881,
with the numbers of St. Pancras houses in the special area deducted. The actual number of houses ia the rest of the Parish is
larger than that given, but it is convenient that the error should be such as to minimize rather than exaggerate the appearance of
any effects of any small pox hospital influence.