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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING DECEMBER, 1856,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.P.,
Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
January 2nd, 1857. No. 9.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen—
The number of deaths registered during the four weeks, ending December
27th, was 324. Eleven of the deaths in Hospitals were of persons recently
come from other Parishes, so that they should not be reckoned, reducing the
number to 313. The average mortality of the corresponding month in the ten
immediately preceding years has been 347, which, when raised for increase of
population, give 382, above 20 per cent. more than the present return.
There has been a very small amount of fatal epidemic diseases. Hooping
cough is, however, on the increase (7 cases last week); there has been no
death from small pox; only 4 from scarlet fever; and 10 deaths from continued
fever. Pulmonary complaints have been fatal to 80 persons, exclusive of 50
from consumption, and others from croup and hooping cough. Cerebral diseases
have been fatal to 26, and heart diseases to 15 persons; syphilitic disease has
been fatal to no less than 5 children.
The mean temperature of the four weeks has been 40°.3, which is
about above the average of corresponding months in previous years, and ½°
lower than last month. The lowest temperature was on the 30th November,
when the thermometer stood at 19°.4; the highest was on the 6th December, when