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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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WHOOPING COUGH.
In the following table will be found the deaths and death-rate from whooping cough for the past ten years for the whole Borough and for the four registration sub-districts:—
| Year. | Deaths. | Bate per 1,000 population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | South. | East. | North. | Whole Borough. | West. | South. | North. | East. | Whole Borough. | |
| 1903 | 23 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 86 | 0.37 | 0.32 | 0.42 | 0.34 | 0.36 |
| 1904 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 24 | 79 | 0.32 | 0.36 | 0.25 | 04.0 | 0.33 |
| 1905 | 15 | 17 | 31 | 17 | 80 | 0.24 | 0.39 | 0.51 | 0.28 | 0.33 |
| 1906 | 18 | 15 | 22 | 13 | 68 | 0.29 | 0.27 | 0.37 | 0.21 | 0.28 |
| 1907 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 18 | 76 | 0.27 | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.30 | 0.32 |
| 1908 | 22 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 67 | 0.35 | 0.21 | 0.26 | 0.28 | 0.28 |
| 1909 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 31 | 5 | 41 | 15 | 92 | 0.50 | 0.08 | 0.68 | 0.25 | 0.38 |
| 1911 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 48 | 0.22 | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.20 |
| 1912 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 5 | 47 | 0.10 | 0.30 | 0.38 | 0.09 | 0.21 |
| 1913 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 36 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.29 | 0.16 |
It will be seen that 1913 was a favourable year in regard to this disease.
The North registration sub-district (Wards 1 and 2), as in the case of measles,
suffered most.
35 of the 36 deaths were children under five years of age.
The weekly distribution of the deaths will be found in the table inset at
page 24, and it will be noticed that most of the deaths took place during the
first five months of the year.
It may be noted that although 1913 was a particularly favourable year as
regards measles and whooping cough, yet the number of deaths from each of
these diseases exceeded those from scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever
put together.
DIARRHœA AND ENTERITIS.
148 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis were registered during 1913, equal
to a death-rate of 0.66 per 1,000 population.
Of these 127 were in children under five years of age and 95 in babies under
one.
These figures are higher than would have been expected from the weather
conditions during the year.