London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1896
Forty-first annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the vital and sanitary condition of the Borough of Saint Pancras, London
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PUBLIC MORTUARIES.
Number of bodies deposited in the General Mortuary 466
,, ,, ,, Infectious ,, 19
485
INQUESTS HELD.
In the Coroner's Court, General Cases 439
„ „ Poor Law Cases 38
Elsewhere in St. Pancras 0
477
COMPARATIVE MORTALITY OF THE SUB-DISTRICTS.
In comparing the mortality of the Sub-Districts, it will be seen that in the
Somers Town Sub-District occurred the highest general death-rate, the highest
death-rate of infants under one year per 1000 births, the highest death-rate of
children under five years per 1,000 births, the highest death-rate from bronchitis,
pneumonia, and pleurisy, and from the notifiable infectious diseases, as well as
the second highest from the principal zymotic diseases. The Gray's Inn Lane
Sub-District stood highest as to death-rates from the principal zymotic diseases,
and from phthisis. On the other hand, in the Kentish Town Sub-District are
shown the lowest death-rates from general causes, from phthisis, and also from
bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy, and the lowest death-rates of infants
under one year, and children under five years per 1,000 births. The Tottenham
Court Sub-District contributed the lowest death-rates from the notifiable
infectious diseases and the principal zymotic diseases.