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 5b.
ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Notifiable Infectious 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 1000 total Deaths in 10 yearB 1897.06 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 1907. |
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Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12.3 | 2.9 | .. | |
Scarlet Fever | 24 | 51 | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 32 | 30.0 | 26 | 7.0 | 7.3 |
Diphtheria | 109 | 95 | 106 | 69 | 105 | 103 | 39 | 37 | 25 | 21 | 70.9 | 27 | 16.5 | 7.6 |
Membranous Croup | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 38 | 42 | 43 | 63 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 31.2 | 4 | 7.2 | 1.1 |
Fever,Simple & Continued | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever . | 6 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5.3 | 1 | 1.2 | 0.3 |
Cholera | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.5 | .. | 01 | .. |
Erysipelas | 13 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 131 | 11 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.2 | .. | 00.4 | .. |
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 0.06 |
Totals | 195 | 210 | 205 | 155 | 229 | 295 | 87 | 106 | 83 | 95 | 166.0 | 72 | 38.7 | 20.3 |