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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 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table SC. ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS. TABLE shewing the proportions of Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases and certain other Diseases, and the proportion of Deaths at various Ages to 1000 of Total Deaths in the Sub-Districts for the year 1889. Also the proportion of Deaths under one year, five years, and at all ages to 1000 Births.
| Total Deaths. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Typhus. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Continued Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Zymotic Diseases. | Tubercular Diseases. | Respiratory Diseases. | Under One Year. | Under Five Years. | 5-bo Years. | Over 60 Years. | Per 1000 Births. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Number of Births. | Deaths under One Year. | Deaths under Five Years. | Deaths at all Ages. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regent's Park | 689 | •• | 40.75 | 4.34 | •• | 25.91 | 12.19 | •• | 5.82 | 33.40 | 120.9 | 164.5 | 180.5 | 212.5 | 330.6 | 416.0 | 275.1 | 1115 | 137.4 | 213.8 | 619.5 |
| Tottenham Court | 550 | •• | 40.11 | 5.47 | •• | 23.70 | 14.6 | •• | 1.91 | 32.83 | 124.1 | 175.8 | 173.9 | 238.8 | 368.3 | 392.1 | 242.5 | 713 | 184.5 | 284.1 | 773.4 |
| Gray's Inn Lane | 613 | •• | 6.54 | 10.8 | •• | 6.54 | 6.54 | 1.66 | 6.54 | 45.8i | 83.4 | 183.2 | 200.3 | 232.3 | 332.1 | 415.5 | 255.2 | 831 | 173.4 | 245.0 | 739.8 |
| Somers Town | 701 | •• | I8.54 | 8.58 | •• | 24.32 | 11.45 | •• | 8.57 | 58.65 | 130.2 | 161.7 | 237.4 | 271.7 | 401.5 | 340.5 | 256.0 | 11'47 | 151.9 | 165.9 | 641.8 |
| Camden Town | 316 | •• | 6.34 | ..•• | •• | 10.44 | 22.23 | 3.32 | 6.64 | 50.76 | 103.1 | 131.5 | 23I.7 | 222.1 | 374.4 | 368.1 | 260.3 | 529 | 138.5 | 136.2 | 627.4 |
| Kentish Town | 1585 | •• | 1.07 | 6.29 | •• | 34.15 | 17.89 | •• | 7.95 | 36.64 | 111.9 | 139.1 | 189.2 | 251.3 | 3808 | 380.9 | 255.7 | 2963 | 101.1 | 134.7 | 524.3 |
| 4454 | •• | 19.55 | 6.30 | •• | 24.3 | 13.97 | 0.45 | 6.52 | 43.15 | 117.4 | 153.5 | 196.7 | 237.7 | 361.9 | 378.5 | 261.1 | 7298 | 145.5 | 211.6 | 611.8 | |