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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 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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INQUESTS HELD.
| In the Coroner's Court—General Cases | 467 |
| ,, ,, ,, Poor Law Cases | 29 |
| Elsewhere in St. Pancras | 0 |
| 496 |
PUBLIC MORTUARIES.
| Number of bodies deposited in the General Mortuary | 505 |
| ,, ,, ,, Infectious ,, | 20 |
| 525 |
COMPARATIVE MORTALITY OF THE SUB-DISTRICTS.
In comparing the mortality of the six Sub-Districts per 1000 of population
Somers Town appears, during the past year, as having the highest general deathrate,
followed by Tottenham Court Road, but as the latter Sub-District has also
the lowest birth-rate the mortality is relatively more heavy at the lower ages, and
the same applies in a lesser degree to Gray's Inn Lane which follows, consequently
the order of greatest fatility of infants per 1000 births is Tottenham Court Road,
Gray's Inn Lane, and Somers Town. The Mortality from the principal Zymotic
Diseases, and the principal Respiratory Diseases, is also highest in Somers Town,
and from Phthisis in Tottenham Court Road, whilst Gray's Inn Lane will be
found in the tables to follow always as second or third in comparison. Taking the
general position of each Sub-District in order of demerit, they would rank—
Somers Town, Tottenham Court Road, very closely followed by Gray's Inn Lane,
which is followed at some distance by Kentish Town, the record of which is
lowered by the high mortality from notifiable infectious diseases.