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 V. ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT. Table shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 Tears 1866 to 1875, and in the Year 1876.
Disease. | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1866-76. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in two years, 1874-75. | 1876 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1876. |
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Small Pox | 43 | 65 | 12 | 1 | 21 | 448 | 58 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 67 | 0.6 | 22 | 4.4 |
Measles | 101 | 83 | 102 | 68 | 87 | 105 | 105 | 221 | 64 | 82 | 102 | 15.2 | 117 | 23.4 |
Scarlet Fever | 121 | 101 | 237 | 239 | 477 | 95 | 70 | 17 | 95 | 220 | 167 | 31.7 | 137 | 27.4 |
Diphtheria | 31 | 44 | 50 | 20 | 35 | 37 | 16 | 38 | 35 | 55 | 36 | 9.8 | 38 | 7.6 |
Whooping Cough | 211 | 166 | 128 | 221 | 99 | 158 | 259 | 215 | 121 | 232 | 181 | 36.0 | 198 | 39.6 |
Fever | 170 | 118 | 122 | 126 | 158 | 112 | 78 | 78 | 67 | 58 | 109 | 15.2 | 84 | 16.8 |
Diarrhoea | 215 | 211 | 286 | 219 | 227 | 236 | 235 | 253 | 222 | 178 | 228 | 43.1 | 239 | 47.8 |
Total | 892 | 788 | 937 | 894 | 1104 | 1191 | 821 | 824 | 607 | 827 | 888 | 151.7 | 835 | 167.0 |
London | •• | •• | •• | •• | • | •• | •• | •• | 11352 | 13518 | •• | 156.9 | 823 | 162.3 |