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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SAINT PANCRAS.—KENTISH TOWN SUB.DISTRICT.
TABLE shewing Births, Deaths, and Deaths from certain causes per 1000 population, and Deaths under one year per 1000 Births* since 1886, when the Statistics of the Sub.district were first separately extracted.
Quinquennia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1886. 1890 | 1891. 1895 | 1896. 1900 | |||
Per 1000 Population. | Population | 93000 | 94430 | 95660 | 96000 | 96535 | 96535 | 96535 | 96535 | 96535 | 96535 | 100139 | 1(0174 | 100242 | 100242 | 61852 | 59844 | 59561 | 95125 | 96535 | 92530 | |
/ Births | 32.2 | 31.91 | 31.46 | 30.7 | 31.1 | 31.3 | 28.6 | 30.3 | 30.3 | 30.3 | 29.6 | 28.8 | 30.0 | 28.4 | 27.9 | 27.9 | 27.7 | 31.5 | 30.1 | 29.2 | ||
Deaths | 17.2 | 18.56 | 18.04 | 16.4 | 19.8 | 20.2 | 20.6 | 19.7 | 17.0 | 18.8 | 16.7 | 16.5 | 18.1 | 18.5 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 16.6 | 17.8 | 19.1 | 17.4 | ||
(1) Principal Zymotic Diseases | 2.04 | 2.96 | 309 | 1.84 | 2.77 | 1.9 | 2.7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2.42 | 2.71 | 2.84 | 2..25 | 2.12 | 2.27 | 2.54 | .. | 2.51 | 1886.1890 1898.1902 | |
Diarrhoea only | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.46 | 0.59 | 0.77 | 0.61 | 0.50 | 0.64 | 0.30 | 0.79 | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.96 | 1.00 | 0.92 | 0.79 | 0.25 | 0.74 | 0.57 | 0.93 | ||
(2) Respiratory Diseases | 3.5 | 3.52 | 3.29 | 3.09 | 4.18 | 4.9 | 4.9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3.53 | .. | .. | ||
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.93 | 2.62 | 3.49 | 2.89 | 2.56 | 3.14 | .. | 3.08 | 2.96 | 1893.1897 1898.1902 | |
(3) Tubercular Diseases | 1.9 | 2.19 | 2.12 | 2.08 | 2.66 | 2.8 | 2.2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2.19 | .. | .. | ||
Phthisis only | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.65 | 1.75 | 1.40 | 1.39 | 1.67 | 1.53 | 1.68 | 1.55 | f 1893.1897 i 1898.1902 | ||
Deaths under 1 year per 1000 Births | 141 | 148 | 133 | 184 | 155 | 143 | 174 | 150 | 134 | 156 | 153 | 151 | 150 | 168 | 132 | 137 | 116 | 141 | 151 | 152 |
1.—Includes Small.pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid and Simple Continued
Fevers, Diarrhoea and Cholera.
2.—Includes Asthma, Emphysema, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Pleurisy, and other diseases of the Respiratory System.
3.—Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Rickets, and Tabes Mesenterica.
Notes.—The parts of Wards 2 and 3 formerly included in the Kentish Town Sub.Districts were respectively transferred to Regent's
Park and Camden Town on 1st January, 1900.—In the first quarter of 1903 the Sub.Districts were entirely altered so that
it became no longer possible to compare the past with the present.
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