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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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| AT WHAT AGES' | FROM WHAT CAUSES? | Births during the same period. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | No. of Inhabited Houses. | Population. | M. | F. | Deaths in Hospitals. | TOTALS. | 0 to 5 | 3 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 30 | 30 to 40 | 40 to 50 | 50 to 60 | 60 to 70 | 70 and over. | Low Fevers. | Dysenterv and Acute Diarrhæa (notof Infants.) | Diarrhæa of Infants. | Influenza. | Scarlet Fever | Small Pox. | Erysipelas, Pyaemia, and Puerperal Fever. | Measles, Hooping Cough, and Croup | Bronchitis and Pneumonia of Infants. | Convulsions of Infants. | Consumption and other tubercular diseases. | Violence, Privation, and Poison. | Premature Birth and Debility. | Other diseases chiefly Chronic. | M. | F. | Totals. | |||
| M | F. | M. | F. | M.F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 3575 | 31918 | 29 | 34 | 29 | 34 | 63 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 67 | 50 | 117 | |||||||||
| Tottenham Court Road | 145 | 2586 | 27933 | 27 | 27 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 32 | 64 | 17 | 1 | .. | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 12 | .. | 1 | 33 | 70 | |||||||||||
| Strand Union | 500 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 155 | 2946 | 26523 | 27 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 23 | 54 | 25 | - | .. | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 184 | 3731 | 35611 | 38 | 42 | 2 | 38 | 44 | 82 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 5 | .. | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 69 | 132 | |||||||||||||||
| Camden Town | 171 | 2498 | 19515 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 28 | .. | 2 | 3 | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Workhouse | 1600 | 15 | 25 | 40 | 2 | 6 | 12 | .. | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kentish Town | 3248 | 23326 | 39 | 33 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 7 | 3 | 5 | 82 | |||||||||||||||||||
| The whole Parish | 2716 | 18584 | 166956 | 194 | 198 | 10 | 11 | 204 | 209 | 154 | 22 | 15 | 27 | 29 | 33 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 43 | 37 | 56 | 17 | 345 | 267 | |||||||||||||
N.B. -The Divisions arc those of the Registrar General, which do not quite correspond with any other divisions. The numbers of houses and of the population
arederived from the last Census in 1851,
Seven of the Deaths in Hospitals were of Persons from other Districts whilst Seven others were of Saint Pancras People dying in the Middlesex Hospital.
There have been no Deaths during the Month in the London Fever Hospital of Persons from this Parish.