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 1877 to 1886, and in the year 1887.
Disease. | 1877 | 1878 | 1679 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1877-86. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1877-66. | Total Deaths in 1887. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886. |
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Small-Pox | 129 | 94 | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 63 | 2 | 47.9 | 9.76 | .. | .. |
Measles | 143 | 48 | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 190 | 127 | 118.5 | 24.15 | 145 | 29.84 |
Scarlet Fever | 89 | 138 | 144 | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 31 | 26 | 93.5 | 19.05 | 58 | 11.94 |
Diphtheria | 22 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 44 | 42.9 | 8.74 | 59 | 12.14 |
Whooping Cough | 141 | 217 | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 292 | 144 | 120 | 175.3 | 35.73 | 199 | 40.96 |
Typhus Fever | 20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3.3 | 0.67 | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 58 | 59 | 67 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 60.5 | 12.33 | 28 | 5.76 |
Simple Continued Fever | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 3.7 | 0.75 | 1 | 0.20 |
Diarrhoea& Simple Cholera | 155 | 229 | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 125 | 266 | 181.6 | 37.01 | 229 | 47.13 |
Totals | 767 | 816 | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 . | 724 | b29 | 616 | 727.2 | 148.2 | 719 | 148.0 |
Totals—London | 12,232 | 14,619 | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,811 | 13,533 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 11,647 | 11,121 | 12,713 | 155.3 | 12,684 | 154.3 |