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, London, Borough of]
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ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Table 5a.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Table 5a.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1890 to 1889, and in the year 1900.
Disease. | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1890.99. | Number of Deaths in 1900- | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1890-99. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1900. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2.0 | .. | 0.4 | .. |
Measles | 131 | 69 | 229 | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 110 | 99 | 13.09 | 223 | 27.1 | 26.4 |
Scarlet Fever | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 61 | 25 | 45.9 | 10 | 9.5 | 2.1 |
Diphtheria and Mem-branous Croup | 141 | 80 | 114 | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 98 | 111 | 120.9 | 71 | 25.0 | 15.3 |
Whooping Cough | 140 | 155 | 147 | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 122 | 85 | 141 | 121.1 | 104 | 25.0 | 22.3 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 32.9 | 63 | 6.8 | 13.5 |
Simple Continued Fever | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.2 | .. | 0.04 | .. |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 174 | 168 | 139 | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 261 | 247 | 196.9 | 244 | 40.7 | 52.4 |
Totals | 646 | 522 | 724 | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 647 | 666 | 650.8 | 615 | 134.5 | 132.1 |