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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICES OF HEALTH,
FOR THE YEAR 1864.
TO THE VESTEY OF ST. PANCEAS.
Gentlemen,
The year 1864 was an unusually unhealthy one in London; the
rate of mortality was 2.645 per cent. of the population, whilst the average in
twenty-five years, including two periods of epidemic Cholera was only 2.432.
The death rate was higher than in any of the preceding twenty-four years,
excepting 1847, the Influenza year, and 1849 and 1854 the Cholera years.
In common with other parts of the Metropolis, St. Pancras suffered from a
high mortality, about 2.535 per cent. of the population having died during
the year. This is a higher death rate than has occurred for many years past.
The death rate in St. Pancras was very nearly that in the northern group of
districts, viz., St. Marylebone, Hampstead, Islington, Hackney, and St. Pancras.
The mortality in the central and east districts was considerably higher, whilst
that in the western districts was decidedly lower than in St. Pancras.
The diseases which proved unusually fatal in London were bronchitis,
typhus, scarlatina, diarrhoea, and measles.
In St. Pancras the diseases which were much more fatal than in 1863, were
Bronchitis, giving 645 deaths instead of 428 ; Pneumonia, 312 instead of 220;
the tubercular diseases (including consumption) 866 deaths instead of 695;
and diseases of the nervous system 535 instead of 481. From Measles,
Typhus, and Diarrhoea there were a few more deaths in 1864 than in 1863.