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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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Table V
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1879 to 1888, and in the year 1889.
Disease. | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1879-88. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years. 1679-88. | Total Deaths in 1889. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1889. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small·Pox | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 63 | 2 | 1 | 2·51 | 5·4 | |||
Measles | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 190 | 127 | 145 | 206 | 134·5 | 28·9 | 86 | 19·3 |
Scarlet Fever | 144 | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 31 | 26 | 58 | 52 | 81·8 | 17·6 | 28 | 6·2 |
Diphtheria | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 44 | 59 | 72 | 51·5 | 11·0 | 62 | 13 9 |
Whooping Cough | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 202 | 144 | 120 | 199 | 142 | 174·6 | 37·5 | 108 | 24·2 |
Typhus Fever | 4 | 1 | 1 | • • | 2 | 1 | 0·9 | 0·0 | ||||||
Enteric Fever | 57 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 28 | 57 | 57·3 | 12·3 | 29 | 6'5 |
Simple Continued Fever . | 4 | 8 | • • | 2 | • • | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2·5 | 0·5 | 2 | 0·4 | |
Diarrhœa | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 125 | 266 | 229 | 114 | 177·8 | 38·2 | 183 | 41·8 |
Totals | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 | 724 | 629 | 616 | 719 | 645 | 705·3 | 151·7 | 498 | 111·8 |
Totals—London | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,911 | 13,533 | 10,801 13,629 | 11,647 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 12·377 | .. | 9,709 | 128·3 |