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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T able 5 B.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the 10 years 1892 to 1901, and in the year 1902.
Diseases. | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1892-01 | Number of Deaths in 1902. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years 1892-01 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1902. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 6.1 | 82 | 1.3 | 18.3 |
Scarlet Fever | 67 | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 44.3 | 48 | 9.4 | 10.7 |
Diphtheria | 114 | 187 | 117 | 125 | 94 | 109 | 95 | 106 | 69 | 105 | 112.1 | 103 | 23.9 | 23.0 |
Membranous Croup | .. | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4.7 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 26 | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 36.4 | 44 | 7.7 | 9.8 |
Fever, Simple & Continued | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 12 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 7.8 | 5 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
Cholera | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 0.7 | .. | 0.1 | .. |
Erysipelas | 9 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 14.1 | 8 | 30 | 1.8 |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 0.4 |
Totals | 230 | 383 | 238 | 234 | 183 | 195 | 210 | 205 | 155 | 229 | 226.2 | 295 | 48.1 | 65.8 |