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St Pancras 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: COMPARATIVE MORTALITY OF THE SUB-DISTRICTS. In tables 8, A, B, and C appended to this Report, the comparative statistics of the Sub-Districts will be found fully calculated. The two following tables summarise the leading facts:-

COMPARATIVE MORTALITY OF THE SUB-DISTRICTS. In tables 8, A, B, and C appended to this Report, the comparative statistics of the Sub-Districts will be found fully calculated. The two following tables summarise the leading facts:-

Sub-Districts.Per 1000 Population.Per 1000 Births. Deaths under 1 year.
Birth-rate.Death-rate.
Regent's Park26.470.0137
Tottenham Court26.520.4184
Gray's Inn Lane27.520.2173
Somers Town33.620.4151
Camden Town31.918.9138
Kentish Town30.716.4101
St. Pancras28.518.1145
Sub-Districts.Per 1000 Total Deaths.
Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.
Regent's Park120164180
Tottenham Court124175173
Gray's Inn Lane83183200
Somers Town130161237
Camden Town103131231
Kentish Town111139189
St. Pancras117153196

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The comparative order of mortality in the several Sub-Districts, proceeding
from the highest to the lowest, would appear to be approximately, Tottenham
Court, Gray's Inn Lane, Somers Town, Camden Town, Regent's Park, and Kentish
Town. This order corresponds with the density of population in the respective
Sub-Districts.
INFLUENZA.
At the extreme end of the year 1889 an epidemic of Influenza broke out, but
the first deaths from the disease did not occur until the following year. Your
Medical Officer of Health furnished a special report upon the epidemic immediately
upon its subsidence, this report was printed and circulated.