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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table 7B.
ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS. Second Quarter of 1888. Deaths from the Principal Zymotic, Tubercular, and Respiratory Diseases.
| Regent's Park. | Tottenham Court. | Gray's Inn Lane. | Somers Town. | Camden Town. | Kentish Town. | No address. | Total. St. Pancras. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Measles | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | .. | 15 |
| Scarlatina | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | .. | 9 |
| Typhus | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 12 | .. | 38 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | .. | 11 |
| Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | 7 | .. | 12 |
| Diarrhoea, &c. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | .. | 5 | .. | 16 |
| Total Principal Zymotics | 13 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 40 | .. | 101 |
| Rickets | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | 2 | 3 | .. | 4 | .. | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| Hydrocephalus | 4 | 5 | .. | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | 16 |
| Phthisis | 21 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 42 | 5 | 114 |
| Tuberculosis, Scropula | 4 | 5 | 5 | .. | 1 | 4 | 3 | 22 |
| Total Tubercular Diseases | 32 | 23 | 17 | 26 | 7 | 55 | 9 | 169 |
| Laryngitis | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 |
| Croup | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 7 |
| Emphysema, Asthma | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
| Bronchitis | 18 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 38 | 4 | 130 |
| Pneumonia | 7 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 32 |
| Pleurisy | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 6 |
| Other Respiratory Diseases | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 7 |
| Total Respiratory Diseases | 31 | 26 | 28 | 33 | 15 | 49 | 6 | 188 |