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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| LOCALITIES. | Area in Aeres. | 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. | From Diarrhoea. | From Low Fever. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M.&F. | M. | F. | M. & F. | ||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 427 | 31918 | 45 | 42 | 87 | 28 | 33 | 61 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Tottenham Court | 145 | 27813 | 41 | 32 | 73 | 21 | 21 | 42 | 19 | . | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| University College Hospital | 500 | 3 | 2 | 5 | . | ||||||||||
| Strand Union | 120 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | . | .. | |||||
| Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26462 | 45 | 83 | 26 | 21 | 47 | 20 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 2 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 58 | 53 | 111 | 28 | 36 | 64 | 25 | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
| Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 41 | 28 | 69 | 16 | 14 | 30 | 17 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
| St. Pancras Workhouse | 1600 | 14 | 23 | 37 | 10 | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | |||||
| Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 61 | 47 | 108 | 20 | 31 | 51 | 30 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Middlesex Hospital | 2 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| 2716 | 166956 | 284 | 247 | 531 | 167 | 187 | 354 | 152 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 9 | |||
Two of the Deaths in University College Hospital and two of those in the Royal Free
Hospital were of Peisons from other Districts.