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No. of Proportion Proportion
Sub-registration Districts. Deaths. per 1000 of per 1,000 of Total
Population. Deaths.
Regent's Park 8 0.20 11.2
Tottenham Court Road 9 0.33 16.5
Gray's Inn Lane 9 0.29 15.6
Somers Town 19 0.55 23.8
Camden Town 4 0.25 10.4
Kentish Town 23 0.25 14.5
There cannot be any doubt that much of this diminution—
—which was shared by all the sub-registration districts of
St. Pancras—is, to a great extent, attributable to the
absence of excessive cold during the winter months. In
London there were as many as 1,655 fewer deaths from
"Whooping Cough than the average of the previous ten
years.
TYPHUS FEVER.
Two deaths were registered from Typhus Fever. The first
took place in the Homerton Hospital, in February, and was
that of the wife of a printer, living in York place, Somers
Town; it is not known how the deceased became infected.
The other was that of a rag sorter, who was removed from
the Parish of Holborn to the Royal Free Hospital, and subsequently
to the Hospital at Hampstead.
No other cases of this disease became known to the Sanitary
Department during the year.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Enteric Fever caused 132 deaths, being twice as many as
during 1882 and 17.5 more than the average of the preceding
ten years. The number of deaths in 1883 is in the proportion
of 28.2 per 1,000 of total deaths from "all causes," and 0.55
per 1,000 of population.
In London these proportions were 11.6 per 1,000 of total
deaths, and 0.24 of population.
Altogether 544 cases of this disease were reported to the
Sanitary Department.