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, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE IV.—Deaths from Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Hooping Cough, Diarrheea, and TyphuB, in the years 1857,1856, and 1855.
Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Cholera. | Typhus. | Sum of the Six Diseases. | |
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1857 | 11 | 126 | 99 | 163 | 168 | 137 | 704 |
1856 | 18 | 89 | 95 | 152 | 141 | 172 | 667 |
1855 | 42 | 53 | 229 | 167 | 120 | 121 | 732 |
TABLE V.—Showing the number of Deaths in the Metropolis, and in St Pancras and its Sub·Districts, from the Tubercular Class of Diseases, from Diarrhoea, from Low Fevers, and a few other Diseases, and the per centage which these numbers bear to the Deaths from all causes.
All Deaths in 1857. | Number from Tubercular Diseases. | Per centage of these to all Deaths. | Diarrhoea and Cholera Deaths. | Per centage of these to all Deaths. | Typhus, Infantile, and Remittent Fevers. | Per centage of these to all Deaths. | Disease of· Respiratory Organs, including Consumption. | Per centage of these to all Deaths. | Number from Convulsions, Hydrocephalus, and Teething. | Per centage of these to all Deaths. | |
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London | 60160 | 10217 | 16·9 | 3360 | 5·68 | 2301 | 3·8 | 10890 | 18·1 | 4150 | 6·90 |
Saint Pancras | 3831 | 647 | 16·9 | 168 | 4·38 | 137 | 3·6 | 703 | 18·3 | 246 | 6·42 |
Regent's Park | 636 | 103 | 16·2 | 29 | 4·56 | 19 | 2·8 | 120 | 18·9 | 44 | 6'91 |
Tottenham . | 607 | 107 | 17·6 | 26 | 4·28 | 21 | 3·4 | 115 | 18·9 | 51 | 8·40 |
Gray's Inn . | 520 | 88 | 16·9 | 36 | 6·73 | 16 | 2·9 | 98 | 18·7 | 38 | 7·30 |
Somers Town | 730 | 128 | 17·5 | 35 | 2·88 | 37 | 5·1 | 136 | 18·6 | 25 | 3·42 |
Camden Town | 382 | 58 | 15·2 | 11 | 4·80 | 9 | 2·3 | 76 | 19·8 | 30 | 7·85 |
Kentish Town | 609 | 98 | 16·1 | 30 | 4·92 | 34 | 6·6 | 99 | 16'2 | 48 | 7·88 |
Workhouse . | 347 | 65 | 18·1 | 2 | 0·57 | 2 | 0·6 | 59 | 170 | 10 | 2·89 |