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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Table V Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1876 to 1885, and in the year 1886.
Disease. | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1876-85. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1876-85. | Total Deaths in 1886. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 D caths in 1886. |
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Small-Pox | 22 | 129 | 94 | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 63 | 49.9 | 10.1 | 2 | 0.4 |
Measles | 117 | 143 | 48 | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 190 | 117.5 | 23.6 | 127 | 26.0 |
Scarlet Fever | 137 | 89 | 138 | 144 | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 31 | 1040 | 21.2 | 26 | 5-3 |
Diphtheria | 38 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 42.3 | 8.6 | 44 | 9.0 |
Whooping Cough | 198 | 141 | 217 | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 262 | 144 | 183.1 | 372 | 120 | 24.6 |
Typhus Fever | 5 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 3.8 | 0.8 | . . | .. |
Enteric Fever | 60 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 37 | 63.6 | 12.9 | 29 | 5.9 |
Simple Continued Fever . | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.4 |
Diarrhœa& Simple Cholera | 239 | 155 | 229 | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 125 | 178.9 | 3.63 | 266 | 54.5 |
Totals | 823 | 767 | 816 | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 | 724 | 629 | 747.9 | 151.9 | 616 | 126.3 |
Totals—London | 14,619 | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,629 | 11,647 | 12,857 | 157.1 | 11,121 | 135.1 |