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, London, Borough of]
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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT. Table 5a.
Disease. | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1888.97. | Number of Deaths in 1898. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1888.97. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1898. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small.pox | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | 2'1 | .. | 0.4 | .. |
Measles | 206 | 86 | 131 | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 139.2 | 110 | 29.1 | 23.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 52 | 28 | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 46.3 | 51 | 9.7 | 10.9 |
Diphtheria and Mem. branous Croup | 72 | 62 | 141 | 80 | 114 | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 113.4 | 98 | 23.7 | 21.0 |
Whooping Cough | 142 | 108 | 140 | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 122 | 123.5 | 85 | 25.8 | 18.3 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 57 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 33.0 | 42 | 6.9 | 9.0 |
Simple Continued Fever | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | . . | .. | 0.5 | .. | 0.1 | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 114 | 183 | 174 | 158 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 175.8 | 261 | 36.8 | 56.1 |
Totals | 645 | 498 | 646 | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 633.8 | 647 | 132.5 [ | 138.9 |