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14
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF SAINT PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX,
DURING APRIL, 1857,
by
THOMAS HILLIER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of Saint Pancras.
Mat 12th, 1857.] [No. 13.
TO THE SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen—
The total number of deaths registered in Saint Pancras during the five weeks
that ended on the 2nd May was 384. (See Schedule B.)
The average mortality during the corresponding periods of the ten immediately
preceding years is 382 9, which becomes, if corrected for an increased population,
421. The present return, therefore, shows a favorable state of the public
health.
147 children have died under 5 years of age, and 21 persons have died above
the age of 80 years.
Of zymotic diseases Hooping cough has been the most fatal, having destroyed
22 children; Low Fevers have been fatal in 13, Scarlatina in 12, Measles in 8
(See Schedule A.) There has been no death from Small Pox, although the disease
has been rather prevalent in Somers Town sub-district. Diseases of the respiratory
organs were fatal in 80 cases, to be compared with 79 deaths in four weeks of
March. Of the 80 cases, 38 were children under 5, and 18 of persons over 60
years of age. There have been 74 deaths from tubercular diseases.
WORKHOUSE.
There have been during the five weeks 31 deaths in the Workhouse. Of these
there was only one case of epidemic disease, namely, Hooping cough. The general
health of the inmates has been satisfactory. The average number has been 1475.
There have been no admissions to the Eever Hospital from this Parish during
the month.
Temperature.—The highest temperature registered at Greenwich was 69°
on the 19th of April; the lowest was 28 2° on the 24th of the month. From the
23rd of April, cold Easterly or North-easterly winds have been prevalent. The
greatest diurnal range of temperature was 27° (from 33° to 60°), on the 17th of