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 1880 to 1889, and in the year 1890.
Disease. | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1880-89. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years, 1880-89. | Deaths in 1890. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1890. |
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Small-Pox | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 63 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 23.8 | 4.98 | .. | .. |
Measles | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 190 | 127 | 145 | 206 | 86 | 130.2 | 27.3 | 131 | 25.4 |
Scarlet Fever | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 31 | 26 | 58 | 52 | 28 | 70.2 | 14.7 | 27 | 5.2 |
Diphtheria | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 44 | 59 | 72 | 62 | 55.2 | 11.6 | 141 | 27.4 |
Whooping Cough | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 202 | 144 | 120 | 199 | 142 | 108 | 169.0 | 35.4 | 140 | 27.2 |
Typhus Fever | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.5 | 0.0 | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 28 | 57 | 29 | 54.5 | 11.4 | 32 | 6.2 |
Simple Continued Fever | 4 | 8 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.19 |
Diarrhoea | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 125 | 266 | 229 | 114 | 183 | 184.0 | 38.5 | 174 | 33.8 |
Totals | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 | 724 | 629 | 616 | 719 | 645 | 498 | 689.6 | 144.4 | 646 | 125.4 |
Totals—London | 13,735 | 13,911 | 13,533 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 11,647 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 9,709 | 12.157 | .. | 12,279 | 134.6 |