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St Pancras 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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2 and 8, West Street, two deaths.
11, York Buildings, one death.
16, 18, and 63, "Wilstead street, 3 fatal cases.
Cases not fatal in Latham's Court, Isaac's Place, and Chalton Street.
Camden Town—13 deaths.
72 and 83, Bayham Street, four deaths.
33, Caroline Street, one death.
7, Greenland Place, one death.
7, King's Yard, one death.
Pancras Infirmary and Casual "Ward, two deaths.
3, St. Stephen's Place, 2 fatal cases.
17 and 21, Suffolk Street, 2 fatal cases—1 recovery.
Two cases not fatal in Ashby Street, one in Pancras Walk.
Kentish Town,—18 deaths.
87, Carlton Street, fatal case.
40, Castle Road, fatal case.
3, Clarendon Cottages, fatal case.
5 and 12, Dale Road, 2 cases—one death.
29 and 36, Duke's Terrace, 2 cases—one death.
1, Harold Street, one death.
4, Hargrave Place, one death—two cases.
6, Haverstock Road, one death.
7, St. George's Road, one death.
15, Piercefield Street, 4 fatal cases.
8, Little Randolph Street, one death.
7, Spring Place, fatal case.
31 and 158, Weedington Road, 2 fatal cases.
2, Whitfield Street, 1 fatal case—1 case not fatal.
Cases not fatal in Maiden Road, Modbury Terrace, and St. Leonard's
Square.
The Regent's Park sub-district, includes not only what is generally understood
as Regent's Park, but a large portion of Ward 5; and it was in this part of
the district that nearly all the deaths occurred.
Grays Inn sub-district had the lowest mortality from the disease, the cases
which died in the Free Hospital, brought from other parishes, being excluded
from the calculation.
One of the very early cases was in Mecklenburgh Square, which has but a
very indifferent sewer. I would suggest that the Surveyor be requested to
report on the condition of it. Three deaths, and several other cases not fatal,
occurred in King's Cross Road, in the line of the Fleet Sewer.
Of the 13 deaths in Camden Town, six were distinctly traced to importation ;
of the other seven, one was from the Casual Wards, and one from the Workhouse.
Of the 18 deaths in Kentish Town, two appeared to be traceable to bad
drainage. One was imported from Tring, in Bedfordshire. Several were
apparently induced by intemperate habits.
The occupations of the persons who died from Cholera, or of their parents
in the case of children, were as follows:—Banker, 1 from Brussels, where he
contracted the disease; solicitor, 1; poor gentlewomen, 2; shopkeepers' class,
5 ; journeymen shoemakers and tailors, 5; servants, 6; clerks, 2; artisans,
43; nurses, 3; cabmen or wives, 5; day labourers, 39; general dealers, 4;
occupation unknown, all poor, 9; paupers, 7.