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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 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Table 9b.
ST. PANCRAS SUB.DISTRICTS.
TABLE showing the proportion of Deaths from the principal Zymotic and certain other Diseases to 1000 Population
in the Sub.Districts for the Year 1899.
| Sub.Districts. | Population, 1899. | Variola, Small.pox. | Scarlatina, Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric or Typhoid Fever. | Fever, Simple and Continued. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea & Dysentery. | Total Zymotic Diseases. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Total Deaths from all Causes at all Ages. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regent's Park | 38,192 | – | 0.10 | 0.34 | – | 0.13 | – | 0.39 | 0.29 | 0.71 | 1.96 | 0.05 | – | 1.91 | 3.75 | 1.75 | 0.60 | 8.51 | 18.5 |
| Tottenham Court | 27,023 | – | 0.04 | 0.22 | – | 0.26 | - | 0.41 | 0.55 | 1.00 | 2.48 | 0.04 | - | 2.96 | 4.03 | 1.85 | 1.37 | 8.74 | 21.5 |
| Gray's Inn Lane | 29,991 | – | 0.13 | 0.13 | – | 0.13 | - | 0.40 | 0.80 | 1.10 | 2.70 | 0.07 | - | 91.58 | 4.44 | 1.73 | 1.13 | 11.20 | 23.8 |
| Somers Town | 32,815 | – | 0.21 | 0.52 | – | 0.18 | _ | 0.40 | 1.07 | 1.34 | 3.72 | 0.06 | – | 2.71 | 5.06 | 1.89 | 1.16 | 10.64 | 25.5 |
| Camden Town | 14,910 | – | 0.07 | 0.60 | – | 0.20 | – | 0.27 | 0.27 | 1.07 | 2.48 | 0.07 | – | 1.54 | 4.22 | 1.34 | 0.81 | 9.12 | 19 6 |
| Kentish Town | 100,242 | – | 0.08 | 0.62 | – | 0.18 | - | 0.44 | 0.52 | 1.00 | 2.84 | 0.06 | - | 1.40 | 3.49 | 1.59 | 0.60 | 8.51 | 18.5 |
| St. Pancras | 243,137 | – | 0.10 | 0.46 | – | 0.18 | - | 0.41 | 0.58 | 1.01 | 2.74 | 0.06 | - | 1.98 | 3.96 | 1.69 | 0.84 | 9.18 | 20.4 |
| London | 4,546,752 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.38 | 0.92 | 2.48 | 0.09 | - | 1.87 | 3.55 | - | 0.83 | - | 19.8 |