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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* This column includes Four Cases of "Cholera Infantum."
[ SCHEDULE A. ]
St. Pancras, Middlesex.—Table for the Five Weeks ending the 1st day of August, 1857.
LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | Population in 1851. | 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 | 70 | 48 | 118 | 21 | 31 | 52 | 24 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
Tottenham Court | 145 | 27813 | 42 | 33 | 75 | 39 | 23 | 62 | 32 | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
University College Hospital | 500 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
Strand Union | 120 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26462 | 31 | 39 | 70 | 23 | 18 | 41 | 30 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 14 | 2 |
Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 1 | .. | 1 | |||||||||||
Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 66 | 68 | 134 | 42 | 37 | 79 | 41 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 47 | 47 | 94 | 9 | 31 | 40 | 20 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 5 | |
St. Pancras Workhouse | 1600 | 20 | 16 | 36 | 4 | ||||||||||
Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 62 | 60 | 122 | 23 | 27 | 50 | 30 | .. | .. | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
Middlesex and Fever Hospitals(out of the Parish) | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
Totals | 318 | 295 | 613 | 192 | 190 | 382 | 190 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 58 | 11 |