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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A Table showing the Mortality and Death-rate of, as well as other particulars relating to, certain Streets and Places selected as Specimens from each. Sub-District.
Names of Streets. | No. of Houses. | Estimated Population. | No. of Deaths in 1858. | Death-rate per 1000, in 1858. | No. of Deaths in 1856-7. | Average No. of Deaths in 3 years, 1856, 57, 58. | Average Annual Death-rate per 1000, in 3 years. | Main Peculiarities of the Places | ||
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Gray's Inn Sub-District continued. | Colonnade | 19 | 266 | 9 & 1 in Workhouse | 38 | 17 | 9 | 37 | Some houses crowded, some badly drained. | |
Cooper's Buildings. | 12 | 35 | .. | .. | 2 | Üø | 19 | Court lying low, with little circulation of air. | ||
Cromer Street Field PL, Bagnigge | 120 | 1600 | 37 | 24 | 112 | 49Üø | 31 | Crowded—Drainage of some part bad. | ||
Wells Road | 5 | 63 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 16 | Lvinag rather low. | ||
Ditto Street | 14 | 240 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 6Üø | 27 | Road unpaved. | ||
Ditto Terrace | 17 | 220 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 24 | Lying rather low. | |||
Fifteenfoot Lane | .. | 96 | .. | • • | 3 | 1 | • • | Road unpaved—people dirty— drains defective. | ||
George St. Bagnigge Wells Road | 52 | 700 | 13 | 16 | 40 | 17Üø | 25 | Road unpaved. | ||
Greenland Grove | 12 | 65? | 4 | 61? | 9 | 3 | 46? | |||
Guildford Street | 100 | 673 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 7Ü÷ | 11 | Gentlemen's houses. | ||
Harrison Street | 80 | 1020 | 20 | 20 | 29 | I6Ü÷ | 16 | Crowded—houses let in separate tenements. | ||
Hastings Street | 47 | 553 | 21 & 1 in Workhouse | 39 | 20 | 14 | 25 | Crowded—ditto. | ||
Henry Street | 4 | 43 | 2 | 46 | ||||||
James St, Wellington Square | 19 | 270 | 12 | 44 | 23 | 11Üø | 43 | Drainage bad —some inhabited cellars. | ||
Judd Street | 74 | 768 | 17 & l in Workhouse | 23 | 25 | 141 | 19 | |||
Manchester Square | 41 | 310 | 10 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 26 | |||
Mecklenburgh Sq | 44 | 320 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | Gentlemen's houses. | ||
Melina Place | 7 | 40 | 2 | 50 | 4 | 2 | 50 | Closed Court, lying low— privies in the houses, not well constructed—occupied by Irish. | ||
Model Buildings | 24 | 143 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 2Üø | 18 | Each house well fitted up for two families. | ||
Paradise Court | .. | 24 | 1 | 40 | 1 | Üø | 27 | Closed court, occupied by poor people. | ||
Paradise Street Pearl Crescent, Bag | 18 | 170 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 29 | Road in a bad state. | ||
nigge Wells Road | 16 | 120 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 3Ü÷ | 28 | |||
Prospect Terrace | 16 | 185 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 3Ü÷ | 18 | Houses let in tenements. | ||
Poplar Place | 11 | 80 | 6 | 75 | 13 | 79 | Very filthy—houses unfit for habitation. | |||
Riley Street | 8 | 102? | .. | .. | 4 | lÜ÷ | 13? | Poor—houses in bad repair — population probably much less than in 1851, owing to empty rooms. | ||
Sandwich Street | 46 | 797 | 25 | 31 | 31 | 18Üø | 23 | Crowded. | ||
Sidmouth Street | 40 | 360 | 9 | 25 | 18 | 9 | 25 | Crowded. | ||
Speedy Place | 23 | 160 | 1 | 7 | 1 | Üø | 6 | A close court, with small well kept houses. | ||
Swinton Street | 60 | 680 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 10Üø | 16 | |||
Wakefield Street | 30 | 380 | 8 | 21 | 15 | 7Üø | 20 | |||
Wellington Square. | 18 | 260 | 8 | 31 | 18 | 8Üø | 33 | Drainage bad—neonle noor. | ||
Wilson Place | 14 | 180 | 6 | 33 | 16 | 41 | Very crowded. | |||
Wilson Street | 16 | 220 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4Ü÷ | 19 |
Of the 44 deaths which occurred in Mews during 1858, 21 occurred in the
Tottenham Court sub-district, 12 in the Eegent's Park, 3 in Gray's Inn, 6 in