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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 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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There is a general prevalence of high figures in Gray's Inn Lane and Somers
Town, and low figures in Kentish Town, except in Zymotic diseases, which for this
sub-district are highest. Kentish Town incurred the highest mortality from
Measles and Diphtheria, and the second highest from Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea,
Scarlatina, and Enteric Fever.
SANITATION.
MORTUARIES.
The Mortuaries were opened at the end of January 1888, and from that date
to the end of the year, the following number of bodies were deposited.
Public Mortuary 319
Infectious 13
329
The Coroner's Court was opened at the same date, and during the eleven
months of 1888, inquests were held in the Court upon 324 cases out of 421 held in
St. Pancras during the year.

Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.Notification.—The following cases of Infectious Diseases were notified to the Department during 1888.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.Notification.—The following cases of Infectious Diseases were notified to the Department during 1888.

Disease.Regent's Park.Tottenham Court.Gray's Inn Lane.Somers Town.Camden Town.Kentish Town.Totals
Small Pox2001047
Scarlatina4866709833175490
Typhus0000000
Diptheria5571074882
Continued Fever0000000
Typhoid Fever810930342102
Totals63818613943269681

Table: Isolation.—The following cases of Infectious Disease were removed from St. ancras into the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals during the year 1888:_

Isolation.—The following cases of Infectious Disease were removed from St. ancras into the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals during the year 1888:_

Small-pox6
Scarlet Fever385
Typhus0
Diptheria3
Continued Fever0
Enteric Fever13
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