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No. of Population Proportion
deaths. per 1000 of per 1000 of
population total deaths.
Regents Park 12 0.30 16.8
Tottenham Court Road 5 0.18 9.1
Gray's Inn Road 14 0.46 24.8
Somers Town 10 0.28 12.5
Camden Town 7 0.45 18.2
Kentish Town 13 0.14 8.2
Only 174 cases were reported to the Sanitary Department,
of which 64 were removed to hospital.
If the number of cases be estimated from the number of
deaths from this disease upon the supposition that the rate
of mortality of scarlet fever is the same over the whole parish
as that which is found in hospitals, there must have been
fully 1000 persons in St. Pancras suffering during the year
from this disease. On this estimate which is in all probability
much below the correct number, not one case in six
became known to the Sanitary Department.
In one family five persons were attacked with scarlet fever,
showing how this disease spreads when persons with insufficient
means of isolation retain in their own homes persons
suffering from this affection. In this family two children were
first attacked; nine days afterwards, the father and another
child; and twelve days later, a fourth child. Thus, of a
family consisting of father, mother, and four children, all but
the mother were attacked, and the father and one child lost
their lives from this disease. The interval of time which
elapsed between the attacks of the first two children and of
the others which followed, makes it in the highest degree
probable that had the first two been removed to hospital the
others would have been saved from illness, and the father
and one child from death.
Again, in another house, scarlet fever was first introduced
into the house by a girl, whose illness was followed by that
of a younger sister and brother, and later by two other
children, and finally by the mother, who died.