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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TABLE (No. I.) FOR SUMMER QUARTER, 1857.
St. Pancras, Middlesex,—Table for the Thirteen Weeks ending 26th day of Sept., 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 | ||||
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M. | F. | M.&F. | M. | F. | M.&F. | Fever. | |||||||||
Regent's Park | 427 | 31918 | 164 | 117 | 281 | 47 | 70 | 117 | 56 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
Tottenham Court | 27813 | 114 | 87 | 201 | 80 | 71 | 151 | 82 | .. | 2 | 4 | 11 | 27 | 6 | |
University College Hospital | 145 | 500 | 29 | 7 | 36 | 4 | |||||||||
Strand Union | 120 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
Gray's Inn Road | 155 | 26462 | 90 | 104 | 194 | 63 | 57 | 120 | 75 | .. | 6 | .. | 2 | 26 | 5 |
Royal Free Hospital | 60 | 9 | 4 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||||
Somers Town | 184 | 35641 | 167 | 148 | 315 | 93 | 79 | 172 | 87 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 7 |
Camden Town | 171 | 19515 | 100 | 112 | 212 | 39 | 72 | 111 | 61 | .. | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
St. Pancras Workhouse | 1600 | 43 | 37 | 80 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | |||||
Kentish Town | 1634 | 23326 | 149 | 148 | 297 | 73 | 68 | 141 | 79 | .. | .. | 5 | 3 | 26 | 10 |
Hospitals out of the Parish | 3 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||||
Totals | 784 | 716 | 1500 | 491 | 479 | 970 | 458 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 134 | 34 | ||
Corresponding quarter in 1856 | .. | .. | 729 | 729 | 1458 | 493 | 490 | 983 | 484 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 32 | 129 | 35 |