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 7A.
ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS.
First Quarter of 1887. Deaths from the Principal Zymotic, Tubercular, and Respiratory Diseases.
Regent's Park. | Tottenham Court. | Gray's Inn Lane. | Somers Town. | Camden Town. | Kentish Town. | No Address. | Total. St. Pancras. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | 25 | .. | 32 |
Scarlatina | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 6 | .. | 13 |
Typhus | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping Cough | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | .. | 45 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 8 | .. | 13 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 7 |
Diarrhœa | .. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | .. | 12 |
Total Principal Zymotics | 16 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 59 | .. | 122 |
Rickets | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 4 |
Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 10 |
Hydrocephalus | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | .. | 13 |
Phthisis | 20 | 11 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 30 | 6 | 110 |
Tuberculosis, Scropela | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 13 |
Total Tubercular Diseases | 29 | 13 | 18 | 28 | 8 | 47 | 7 | 150 |
Laryngitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
Emphysema, Asthma | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | .. | 21 |
Bronchitis | 44 | 30 | 37 | 41 | 25 | 92 | 5 | 274 |
Pneumonia | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Pleurisy | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 8 |
Other Respiratory Diseases | 2 | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 |
Total Respiratory Diseases | 54 | 41 | 50 | 59 | 30 | 121 | 8 | 363 |