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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Table 8A. ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS. TABLE shewing the proportion of Deaths from the principal Zymotic and certain other Diseases, the Number of Deaths at various Ages, and the Number of Births in the Sub-Districts for the year 1888. Births and Deaths not referable to any certain Sub-District, being re-distributed proportionately to the Population.
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Typhus. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Continued Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Zymotic Diseases. | Tubercular Diseases. | Respiratory Diseases. | Deaths under one Year of Age. | Deaths under Five Years of Age. | Deaths from Five to 60 Years of Age. | Deaths over 60 Years of Age. | Deaths at all Ages & from all Causes. | Births. | Excess of Births over Deaths. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regent's Park | .. | 28 | 3 | .. | 17 | 8 | .. | 4 | 23 | 83 | 113 | 124 | 146 | 227 | 273 | 189 | 689 | 1115 | 428 |
| Tottenham Court | .. | 22 | 3 | .. | 13 | 8 | .. | 1 | 18 | 65 | 92 | 93 | 131 | 202 | 215 | 133 | 550 | 713 | 163 |
| Gray's Inn Lane | .. | 4 | 6 | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 51 | 112 | 115 | 142 | 203 | 254 | 156 | 613 | 831 | 218 |
| Somers Town | .. | 13 | 6 | .. | 17 | 8 | .. | 6 | 41 | 91 | 113 | 166 | 190 | 287 | 238 | 176 | 701 | 1147 | 446 |
| Camden Town | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 31 | 42 | 73 | 70 | 118 | 116 | 82 | 316 | 529 | 213 | |
| Kentish Town | .. | 17 | 10 | .. | 54 | 27 | .. | 12 | 57 | 177 | 210 | 299 | 380 | 575 | 586 | 424 | 1585 | 2963 | 1376 |
| St. Pancras | .. | 86 | 28 | .. | 108 | 62 | 2 | 29 | 183 | 498 | 682 | 871 | 1059 | 1612 | 1681 | 1160 | 4454 | 7298 | 2844 |