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 a.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1893 to 1902, and in the year 1903.
Disease. | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1893-02. | Number of Deaths in 1903. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1893 02. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1903. |
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Small-pox | 9 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | 14.1 | .. | 30 | .. |
Measles | 149 | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 110 | 99 | 123 | 65 | 111 | 117.9 | 189 | 25.5 | 49.4 |
Scarlet Fever | 101 | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 42.4 | 23 | 9.2 | 6.0 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 199 | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 98 | 111 | 71 | 109 | 106 | 116.0 | 39 | 25.1 | 10.2 |
Whooping Cough | 103 | 111 | 86 | 121 | 122 | 85 | 141 | 104 | 84 | 109 | 106.6 | 86 | 23.0 | 22.5 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 24 | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 38.2 | 13 | 8.2 | 3.4 |
Simple Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 188 | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 261 | 247 | 244 | 196 | 83 | 202.1 | 80 | 43.6 | 20.9 |
Totals | 773 | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 647 | 666 | 615 | 559 | 583 | 637.3 | 430 | 137.6 | 112.3 |