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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 Giles (Camden) 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: TABLE No. 20.—Showing the Principal Localities in which Fatal Cases of the Chief Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1876.St. Giles North Registration, Sub-District.

TABLE No. 20.—Showing the Principal Localities in which Fatal Cases of the Chief Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1876.

St. Giles North Registration, Sub-District.

Locality.Small Pox.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Measles.Whooping-Cough.Diarrhoea.Fever.Total.
Typhus.Typhoid.Simple Continued
Arthur Street............11.........2
Andrews Street, Great.........1...............1
Chenies Mews...............1.........1
Chenies Street...............1.........1
Church Lane.........1...............1
Clarkes Buildings .............111......3
Compton Street, New...2...11211...8
Crown Street.........2...............2
Dudley Street...2...3...1.........6
George Street...3......1............4
High Street...............1...1...2
Keppel Mews North...1......1............2
Oxford Street...............3.........3
Phoenix Street............1............1
Stacey Street.........1...............1
Store Street...............1.........1
Tottenham Court Road...2.........1.........3
Tower Street.........1...l.........2
White Lion Street..........2...1.........3
White Lion Court..........12............3
Total...10...1381522...50

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Deaths from Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.
The deaths from diseases of these organs were not so fatal as in
the previous year.
Bronchitis and pneumonia again headed the death list and
carried off 274 of our population, and of this number nearly half
resided in St. Giles South (vide, Table No. 14).
These diseases are very fatal to children and aged persons, and
especially to the necessitous poor, who are unable to resist the
vicissitudes of weather, to which they are much exposed.
Deaths from Tubercular Diseases.
178 deaths are set down to the diseases included in this order, viz.,
scrofula, 6; tabes mesenterica, 11; hydrocephalus, 41; and phthisis
(consumption), 120.
These diseases, which are often of an hereditary character, and are
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