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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 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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OTHER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
There have been no (human) cases of Small-pox, Typhis Fever, Cholera,
Plague, Anthrax, Glanders, or Hydrophobia notified in St. Pancras during
1913.
Information was received during the year of the arrival of two groups of
persons who bad been in contact with cases of small-pox, and one person who
had been in contact with a case of plague. These persons were kept under
observation and did not sicken.
Three outbreaks of glanders in horses were reported during the year in
stables in the Borough by the Veterinary Inspector of the London County
Council. In each case the stables were visited, but no human cases occurred.
MEASLES.
In the following table will be found the deaths and death-rate from measles f or the past ten years for the whole Borough and for the four registration sub-districts:—
| Year. | Deaths. | Rate per 1,000 population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | South. | East. | North. | Whole Borough. | West. | South. | East. | North. | Whole Borough. | |
| 1903 | 49 | 33 | 78 | 29 | 189 | 0.79 | 0.59 | 1.31 | 0.49 | 0.80 |
| 1904 | 33 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 125 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.53 |
| 1905 | 14 | 15 | 23 | 25 | 77 | 0.22 | 0.26 | 0.38 | 0.41 | 0.32 |
| 1906 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 12 | 96 | 0.45 | 0.46 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
| 1907 | 37 | 5 | 33 | 16 | 91 | 0.60 | 0.08 | 0.55 | 0.27 | 0.40 |
| 1908 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 46 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 0.31 | 0.19 |
| 1909 | 30 | 9 | 30 | 33 | 102 | 0.48 | 0.16 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.43 |
| 1910 | 39 | 21 | 60 | 23 | 143 | 0.65 | 0.37 | 1.00 | 0.38 | 0.60 |
| 1911 | 26 | 28 | 19 | 40 | 113 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 0.32 | 0.68 | 0.47 |
| 1912 | 25 | 11 | 33 | 25 | 94 | 0.41 | 0.24 | 0.58 | 0.43 | 0.42 |
| 1913 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 36 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.29 | 0.16 |
It will be seen that in 1913 there were fewer deaths from measles than in
any of the past ten years.
The North registration sub-district (Wards 1 and 2) suffered more than the
rest of the Borough.
32 of the 36 deaths were children under live years of age, and there was
only one fatal case of measles over 10 years of age.
The weekly distribution of deaths will be found in the table inset at
page 24, and it will be seen that most of the deaths occurred in the first four
months of the year.