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 5b.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the 10 years 1898 to 1907, and in the year 1908.
Disease | 1898 | 1999 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 vears 1898-07 | Number of Deaths in 1908. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1898-07 | Proportion of Deaths to 1003 total Deaths in 1908. |
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Small pox | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12.3 | .. | 2.9 | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 32 | 26 | 30.2 | 20 | 7.2 | 5.6 |
Diphtheria | 95 | 106 | 69 | 105 | 103 | 39 | 37 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 62.7 | 22 | 14.9 | 6.2 |
Membranous Croup | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 27.8 | 10 | 6.6 | 2.8 |
Fever,Simple & Continued | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4.8 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
Cholera | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.3 | .. | 0.08 | .. |
Erysipelas | 10 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 11 | 12.9 | 7 | 3.07 | 2.0 |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.2 | .. | 0.05 | .. |
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.3 |
Totals | 210 | 205 | 155 | 229 | 295 | 87 | 106 | 83 | 95 | 72 | 153.7 | 63 | 36.5 | 17.7 |