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 7E. ST. PANCRAS SUB-DISTRICTS. Year 1890, Deaths from the Respiratory, Tubercular, and Infectious Diseases, corrected and classified in Sub-Districts.
Deaths from | Regent's Park. | Tottenham Court. | Gray's Inn Lane. | Somers Town. | Camden Town. | Kentish Town. | No Address. | Total St. Pancras. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Laryngitis | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | .. | 23 |
Croup | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | 10 |
Emphysema Asthma | 4 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 46 |
Bronchitis | 114 | 73 | 123 | 120 | 43 | 282 | 32 | 796 |
Pneumonia | 30 | 28 | 24 | 43 | 17 | 65 | 11 | 218 |
Pleurisy | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | .. | 23 |
Other Respiratory Diseases | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 11 | .. | 31 |
Total Respiratory Diseases . | 161 | 116 | 166 | 196 | 71 | 393 | 44 | 1147 |
Rickets | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | .. | 5 | .. | 21 |
Tabes Mesenlerica | 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 35 | 9 | 78 |
Hydrocephalus | 10 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 63 |
Phthisis | 90 | 62 | 70 | 89 | 38 | 171 | 36 | 556 |
Tuberculosis, Scrofula, &c | 11 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 74 |
Total Tubercular Diseases | 122 | 98 | 101 | 130 | 51 | 247 | 43 | 792 |
Small Pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Measles | 11 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 7 | 59 | .. | 131 |
Scarlatina | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | .. | 27 | |
Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Whooping Cough | 20 | 20 | 25 | 21 | 9 | 45 | .. | 140 |
Diphtheria | 26 | 7 | 8 | 24 | 12 | 65 | .. | 141 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
Enteric Fever | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 32 |
Diarrhoea, &c | 15 | 23 | 21 | 35 | 5 | 74 | 1 | 174 |
Total Principal Zymotic Diseases | 80 | 61 | 82 | 120 | 36 | 265 | 2 | 646 |