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 Two Cases registered " Cholera Infantum " and one " Dysentery."
[ SCHEDULE A. ]
St. Pancras, Middlesex—Table for the Four Weeks ending the 29th day of August, 1857.
LOCALITIES. | Area in Acres. | 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. | ||||
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M. | F. | M.&F. | M. | F. | M.&F. | ||||||||||
Regent's Park | 427 | 31918 | 37 | 32 | 69 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 19 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | ||
Tottenham Court | 145 | 27813 | 39 | 26 | 65 | 25 | 26 | 51 | 26 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | i |
University College Hospital | 500 | 10 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
Strand Union | 120 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||
Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26462 | 32 | 29 | 61 | 23 | 22 | 45 | 22 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 9 | 1 |
Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 4 | 3 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 42 | 43 | 85 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 27 | .. | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 35 | 34 | 69 | 21 | 24 | 45 | 23 | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
St. Pancras Workhouse | 1600 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 34 | 45 | 79 | 21 | 22 | 43 | 22 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 13 | 3 |
Middlesex and Fever Hospitals(out of the Parish) | 1 | .. | 1 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 219 | 209 | 428 | 150 | 164 | 314 | 141 | .. | 8 | 8 | 7 | 54 | 8 |