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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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT. Table V Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1878 to 1887, and in the year 1888.
Disease. | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1885 | 1887 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1878-87. | Propor tion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 vears, 1878-87. | Total Deaths in 1888. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1888. |
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Small-Pox | 94 | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 63 | 2 | .. | 35 | 7.15 | l | 0.21 |
Measles | 48 | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 190 | 127 | 145 | 118.8 | 24.28 | 206 | 44.50 |
Scarlet Fever | 138 | 144 | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 31 | 26 | 58 | 90.4 | 18.47 | 52 | 11.23 |
Diphtheria | 23 | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 44 | 59 | 46.6 | 9.52 | 72 | 15.56 |
Whooping Cough | 217 | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 202 | 144 | 120 | 199 | 181.1 | 37.01 | 142 | 30.68 |
Typhus Fever | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1.3 | 0.26 | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 59 | 57 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 28 | 25.5 | 5.21 | 57 | 12.31 |
Simple Continued Fever | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 2.8 | 0.57 | 1 | 0.21 |
Diarrhoea | 229 | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 125 | 266 | 229 | 189.0 | 38.63 | 111 | 24.63 |
Totals | 813 | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 | 724 | 629 | 616 | 719 | 722.4 | 147.6 | 645 | 139 3 |
Totals—London | 14,619 | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,911 | 13,533 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 11.647 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 12.713 | .. | 10,803 | 137.0 |