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St Pancras 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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CAUSES OF DEATH.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox.
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup.
Typhus Fever.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Continued Fever.
Relapsing Fever.
Puerperal Fever.
Cholera
Erysipelas
Plague.
Chicken-pox.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
Small-pox.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhus Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Continued Fever.
Measles.
Whooping Cough.
Diarrhœa.
Dysentery.
At the end of the Report, in Table 7c, will be found set out the number of
deaths under 5 years of age and 5 years upwards from each of the Notifiable
Infectious Diseases in the respective Registration Sub-districts and the entire
District of St. Pancras. In Table 8, in a similar manner, the deaths from the
non-notifiable "principal zymotic diseases" will be found set out. From these
two Tables the mortality of the respective diseases and of each of the groups
have been obtained, as shown in Tables Nos. 9a and 9b and Tables Nos. 10a
and 10b, and as compared as follows:—
| Sub-Districts. | Number. | Per 1000 Population. | Per cent. of Total deaths. |
| West | 94 | 1.52 | 9.7 |
| South | 105 | 1.88 | 13.1 |
| East | 94 | 1.57 | 9.8 |
| North | 81 | 1.36 | 10.2 |
| St. Pancras | 374 | 1.58 | 10.6 |
| London | 6337 | 1.31 | 9.4 |