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Table 5b.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the 10 years 1891 to 1900, and in the year 1901.
Diseases. | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 ______ | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1891-00 | Number of Deaths in 1901. | Propor-tion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1890-00 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1901. |
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Small-pox | • • | 2 | 1 9 | 8 | 1 | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | 2.0 | 41 | 0.4 | 9.5 |
Scarlet Fever | 32 | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 44.2 | 33 | 9.2 | 7.6 |
Diphtheria | 80 | 114 | 187 | 117 | 125 | 94 | 109 | 95 | 106 | 69 | 109.6 | 105 | 22.9 | 24.3 |
Membranous Croup | • • | • • | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4.3 | 4 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Typhus Fever | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
Enteric Fever | 27 | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 36.0 | 31 | 7.5 | 7.2 |
Fever,Simple & Continued | 1 | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | 0.1 | >» • | 0.02 | • • |
Relapsing Fever | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
Puerperal Fever | 7 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 8.0 | 5 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
Cholera | 5 | • • | 2 | • • | • • | • • | 2 | 3 | • • | • • | 1.2 | • • | 0.3 | • • |
Erysipelas | 12 | 9 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 14.3 | 10 | 3.0 | 2.3 |
Plague | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
Chicken-pox | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • |
Totals | 164 | 230 | 383 | 238 | 234 | 183 | 195 | 210 | 205 | 155 | 219.7 | 229 | 45.9 | 53.0 |