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 1898 to 1907, and in the year 1908.
Disease. | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1898-07. | Number of Deaths in 1908. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1898-07. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1908. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12.3 | .. | 2.9 | .. |
Measles | 110 | 99 | 123 | 65 | 111 | 189 | 125 | 77 | 96 | 91 | 108.6 | 46 | 25.8 | 12.9 |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 32 | 26 | 30.2 | 20 | 7.2 | 5.6 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 98 | 111 | 71 | 109 | 106 | 39 | 40 | 26 | 22 | 28 | 65.0 | 23 | 15.4 | 6.5 |
Whooping Cough | 85 | 141 | 104 | 84 | 109 | 86 | 79 | 80 | 68 | 76 | 91.2 | 67 | 21.7 | 18.8 |
Typhui Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 27.8 | 10 | 6.6 | 2.8 |
Simple Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 251 | 247 | 244 | 196 | 83 | 80 | 173 | 141 | 163 | 55 | 164.3 | 87 | 39.0 | 24.5 |
Totals | 647 | 666 | 615 | 559 | 583 | 430 | 461 | 359 | 394 | 280 | 499.4 | 253 | 118.7 | 71.1 |