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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 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table 7 C.
ST. PANCRAS SUE.DISTRICTS.
3rd Quarter of 1887. Deaths from the principal Zymotic, Tubercular and Respiratory Diseases.
| Regent's Park. | Tottenham Court. | Gray's Inn Road. | Somer's Town. | Camden Town. | Kentish Town. | No Address. | Total.St.Pancras. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| small.pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Measles | 6 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 8 | .. | 46 |
| Scarlatina | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .. | 10 |
| Typhus | . . | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 27 | .. | 57 |
| Diphtheria | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | . . | 4 | .. | 15 |
| Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 5 | .. | 9 |
| Diarrhoea | 26 | 18 | 31 | 27 | 19 | 72 | .. | 193 |
| Total Principal Zymotic | 42 | 37 | 41 | 63 | 27 | 120 | .. | 330 |
| Rickets | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 4 |
| Tables Mesenterica | 10 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | .. | 42 |
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Phthisis | 19 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 4 | 92 |
| Tuberculosis, Scrofula | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Total Tubercular Diseaseas | 34 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 14 | 48 | 7 | 162 |
| Laryngitis | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 5 |
| Croup | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | 9 |
| Emphysema, Asthma | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
| Bronchitis | 12 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 69 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 42 |
| Pleurisy | . | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 5 | .. | 8 |
| Other Respiratory Diseases | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 9 |
| Total Respiratory Diseases | 22 | 14 | 17 | 30 | 10 | 47 | 4 | 144 |