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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Disease. | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1865-74. | 1875 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1875. |
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Small Pox | 26 | 43 | 65 | 12 | 1 | 21 | 448 | 58 | 2 | 3 | 68 | 2 | 0.4 |
Measles | 108 | 101 | 83 | 102 | 68 | 87 | 105 | 105 | 221 | 64 | 94 | 82 | 15.2 |
Scarlet Fever | 133 | 121 | 101 | 237 | 239 | 477 | 95 | 70 | 17 | 95 | 158 | 220 | 40.7 |
Diphtheria | 35 | 31 | 44 | 50 | 20 | 35 | 37 | 16 | 38 | 35 | 34 | 55 | 11.2 |
Whooping Cough | 225 | 211 | 166 | 128 | 221 | 99 | 158 | 259 | 215 | 121 | 180 | 232 | 43.0 |
Fever | 162 | 170 | 118 | 122 | 126 | 158 | 112 | 78 | 78 | 67 | 109 | 58 | 10.7 |
Diarrhœa | 282 | 215 | 211 | 286 | 219 | 227 | 236 | 235 | 253 | 222 | 239 | 178 | 33.0 |
Total | 971 | 892 | 788 | 937 | 894 | 1104 | 1191 | 821 | 824 | 607 | 905 | 827 | 153.1 |
London | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11352 | .. | 13518 | 165.8 |