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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The distribution of the deaths in wards is shown in the next table. Deaths from Measles, 1915.
Year. | West. | South. | East. | North. | No Address. | Whole Borough. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | |||||||
4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
1914 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 8 | 12 | .. | 53 |
1916 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 15 | •• | 63 |
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. | Rate per 1,000 population. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
West. | South. | East. | North. | No address | Whole Borough | West. | South. | East. | North. | Whole Borough | |
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 | 13 | 5 | 41 | 15 | .. | 92 | 0.50 | 0.08 | 0.68 | 0.25 | 0.38 |
1911 | 81 | 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 | .. | 86 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.29 | 0.16 |
1914 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 21 | .. | 49 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 0.36 | 0.22 |
1915 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 52 | 0.17 | 0.29 | 0.26 | 0.21 | 0.24 |
Of the 52 deaths, 24 were of children under one year of age and 49 of
children under five years of age.
1 he ward distribution of the deaths is shown in the next table:—
D eaths from W hooping C ough, 1915.
Year | West. | South. | Kast. | North. | No Address. | Whole Borough. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | Ward. | Total. | |||||||
4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
1914 | 3 | 8 | 11 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 21 | .. | 49 |
1915 | 4 | 6 | 10 | •• | 13 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 52 |