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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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[SCHEDULE A.]
St. Pancras, Middlesex—Table for the Four Weeks ending 28th day of Nov., 1857.
| LOCALITIES. | Area in Aores. | Population in 1851. | Births. | Deaths From all causes. | From all causes under 5 years of age. | | From Small Pox. | From Measles. | | From Scarlatina. | |From Hooping Cough. | I From Diarrhoea. | | From Low Fever. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M.&F. | M. | F. | M.&F. | ||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 31918 | 50 | 38 | 88 | 37 | 20 | 57 | 23 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Tottenham Court | 27813 | 44 | 28 | 72 | 26 | 17 | 43 | 21 | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |
| University College Hospital | 145 | 500 | 6 | 7 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Strand Union | 120 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26462 | 40 | 31 | 71 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 13 | .. | 2 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 |
| Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 55 | 51 | 106 | 24 | 42 | 66 | 34 | .. | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 35 | 33 | 68 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 14 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 |
| St. Pancras Workhouse | 1600 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 55 | 38 | 93 | 23 | 31 | 54 | 26 | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Hospitals out of the Parish | 1 | .. | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 279 | 219 | 498 | 154 | 180 | 334 | 133 | .. | 9 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 10 | ||