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St Pancras 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras]
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OTHER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
No cases of smallpox, typbus, cholera, plague or human glanders,
anthrax or hydrophobia were reported in St. Pancras during the year.
As usual, persons who had been in contact with smallpox and other exotic
diseases (mostly on shipboard) were reported and were kept under observation,
with negative results in all cases.
A number of soldiers were reported as having returned to St. Pancras after
suffering from dysentery, enteric and paratyphoid fever. No cases of these
diseases were caused by their return.
An outbreak of glanders in the horses in a St. Pancras stable was reported.
The usual precautions were taken and there was no spread of the disease to
human beings.
WHOOPING COUGH.
In the following table will be found the deaths and death-rates 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 | |
| 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 | 010 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1916 | 13 | 17 | 9 | .. | 39 | 0.22 | .. | 0.36 | 0.16 | 0.18 | |
| 1917 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 8 | .. | 27 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.17 | 0.147 | 0.12* |
* Based on census population.
Of the 27 deaths, 14 were of children under one year of age and 27 of
children under five years of age.
DIARRHCEA AND ENTERITIS.
97 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis were registered during 1917; equal
to a death-rate of 0.5 per 1,000 population.