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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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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and Regent's Park. The death-rate of children under one year per 1000
births was heaviest in the Regent's Park Sub-District, followed by Somers
Town, Tottenham Court, and Gray's Inn Lane, and least in Kentish Town
and Camden Town. The mortality from the principal zymotic diseases was
highest in Somers Town, followed by Gray's Inn Lane, and lowest in Camden
Town, followed by Kentish Town, Regent's Park, and Tottenham Court.
Phthisis showed the highest rate in Gray's Inn Lane, followed by Tottenham
Court. Other principal Lung Diseases produced the heaviest rates in Gray's
Inn Lane, Tottenham Court, and Somers Town. As in previous years, the
highest mortalities prevail in the southern portion of St. Pancras, and the
part nearest the centre of London.

Table: ST. PANCRAS.

ST. PANCRAS.

Year.0—1.1—5.5—15.15—25.25—35.35—45.45—55.55—65.65—75.75—85.85 and upwards.Total Deaths under Five Years.Total Deaths at all Ages.
1889..21................23
1890422251273544650
189161025172526352419216171
18924101581325293423114153
189352148111291241769
18943..3446831242349
1895463651115242612310115
1896..2..11434221220
1897..223366511229
1898141491721232..82
189932..4381591691570
1900132212132229281964137