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 1897 to 1906, and in the year 1907.
Disease. | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1897-06. | Number of Deaths in 1907. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1897.06. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1907. |
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Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12.3 | .. | 2.9 | .. |
Measles | 89 | 110 | 99 | 123 | 65 | 111 | 189 | 125 | 77 | 96 | 108.4 | 91 | 25.2 | 25.6 |
Scarlet Fever | 24 | 51 | 26 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 32 | 30.0 | 26 | 7.0 | 73 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 112 | 98 | 111 | 71 | 109 | 106 | 39 | 40 | 26 | 22 | 73.4 | 28 | 17.1 | 7.9 |
Whooping Cough | 122 | 85 | 141 | 104 | 84 | 109 | 86 | 79 | 80 | 68 | 95.8 | 76 | 22.3 | 21.4 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enterio Fever | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 31.2 | 4 | 7.2 | 11 |
Simple Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 262 | 261 | 247 | 244 | 196 | 83 | 80 | 173 | 141 | 163 | 185.0 | 55 | 43.0 | 15.5 |
TOTALS | 647 | 647 | 666 | 615 | 559 | 583 | 430 | 461 | 359 | 394 | 536.1 | 280 | 1250 | 78.9 |