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.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1889 to 1898, and in the year 1899.
Disease. | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1889-98. | Number of Deaths in 1899. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1839-98. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1899. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2.0 | .. | 0.4 | .. |
Measles | 86 | 131 | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 110 | 129.6 | 99 | 27.1 | 19.9 |
Scarlet Fever | 28 | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 46.2 | 25 | 9.7 | 5.0 |
Diphtheria and Mem branous Croup | 62 | 141 | 80 | 114 | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 98 | 116.0 | 111 | 24.2 | 22.3 |
Whooping Cough | 108 | 140 | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 122 | 85 | 117.8 | 141 | 24.6 | 28.4 |
Typhus Fever | ... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 29 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 31.5 | 43 | 6.6 | 8.7 |
Simple Continued Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.4 | .. | 0.1 | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 183 | 174 | 158 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 261 | 190.5 | 247 | 39.8 | 49.7 |
Totals | 498 | 646 | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 647 | 632.0 | 666 | 132.1 | 134.0 |