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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Table 5a.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1891 to 1900, and in the year 1901.
Disease. | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1891-00. | Number of Deaths in 1901. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1891-00. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1901. |
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Small-pox | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | • • | • • | • • | .. | .. | 2.0 | 41 | 0.4 | 9.5 |
Measles | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 110 | 99 | 123 | 130.1 | 65 | 27.2 | 15.0 |
Scarlet Fever | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 44.2 | 33 | 9.2 | 7.6 |
Diphtheria and Mem-branous Croup | 80 | 114 | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 98 | 111 | 71 | 113.9 | 109 | 23.8 | 25.2 |
Whooping Cough | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 122 | 85 | 141 | 104 | 117.5 | 84 | 24.5 | 19.4 |
Typhus Fever | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | .. | .. | • • | .. | • • | • • | • • | .. |
Enteric Fever | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 36.0 | 31 | 7.5 | 7.2 |
Simple Continued Fever | 1 | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | .. | • • | 0.1 | • • | 0.02 | • • |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 158 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 261 | 247 | 244 | 203.9 | 196 | 42.6 | 45.4 |
Totals | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 647 | 666 | 615 | 647.7 | 559 | 135.3 | 129.4 |