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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Table 5a.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1894 to 1903, and in the year 1904.
Disease. | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | Number of Deaths Annual Average of 10 years 1894-03 | Number of Deaths in 1904. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1894-03 | Proportion o Deaths to 1,001 total Deaths in 1904. | ||||||||||||||
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Small-pox | 8 | 1 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | 41 | 82 | . . | 13.2 | . . | 2.9 | .. | ||||||||||||||
Measles | 86 | 217 | 130 | 89 | 110 | 99 | 123 | 65 | 111 | 189 | 121.9 | 125 | 27.1 | 30.3 | ||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 44 | 51 | 37 | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 34.6 | 27 | 7.9 | 6.5 | ||||||||||||||
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 124 | 131 | 99 | 112 | 98 | 111 | 71 | 109 | 106 | 39 | 100.0 | 40 | 22.2 | 9.7 | ||||||||||||||
Whooping Cough | 111 | 80 | 121 | 122 | 85 | 141 | 104 | 84 | 109 | 86 | 101.9 | 79 | 23.3 | 19.1 | ||||||||||||||
Typhus Fever | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | ||||||||||||||
Enteric Fever | 40 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 37.1 | 17 | 8.2 | 4.2 | ||||||||||||||
Simple Continued Fever | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | .. | . . | . . | . . | . . | ||||||||||||||
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 105 | 218 | 217 | 262 | 261 | 247 | 244 | 196 | 83 | 80 | 191.8 | 173 | 42.5 | 41.9 | ||||||||||||||
Totals | 518 | 732 | 633 | 647 | 647 | 666 | 615 | 559 | 583 | 430 | 603.0 | 461 | 134.0 | 111.7 |