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 5b.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the 10 years 1890 to 1899, and in the year 1900.
Diseases. | 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 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1890-99. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1900. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small pox | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2.0 | .. | 0.4 | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 27 | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 45.9 | 10 | 9.5 | 2.1 |
Diphtheria | 141 | 80 | 114 | 187 | 117 | 125 | 94 | 109 | 95 | 106 | 116.8 | 69 | 24.2 | 14.8 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4.1 | 2 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 32 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 32.9 | 63 | 6.8 | 13.5 |
Fever, Simple &Continued | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.2 | .. | 0.04 | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 14 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 9.1 | 3 | 1.9 | 0.6 |
Cholera | 2 | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | 1.4 | .. | 0.3 | .. |
Erysipelas | 22 | 12 | 9 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 15.7 | 8 | 3.2 | 1.7 |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 239 | 164 | 230 | 383 | 238 | 234 | 183 | 195 | 210 | 205 | 228.1 | 155 | 47.1 | 33.3 |