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
Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1899 to 1908, and in the year 1909.
Disease. | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1917 | 1908 | Number of Deaths, Annual Average of 10 years 1898.08. | Number of Deaths in 1909. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 10 years 1899 08. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths in 1909. |
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Small.pox | .. | .. | 41 | 82 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | •• | 12.3 | .. | 3.0 | •• |
Measles | 99 | 123 | 65 | 111 | 189 | 125 | 77 | 96 | 91 | 46 | 102.2 | 102 | 25.0 | 28.9 |
Scarlet Fever | 25 | 10 | 33 | 48 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 32 | 26 | 20 | 27.1 | 17 | 6.6 | 4.8 |
Diphtheria and Mem. branous Croup | 111 | 71 | 109 | 106 | 39 | 40 | 26 | 22 | 28 | 23 | 57.5 | 28 | 14 0 | 7.9 |
Whooping Cough | 141 | 104 | 84 | 109 | 86 | 79 | 80 | 68 | 76 | 67 | 89.4 | 27 | 21.8 | 7.6 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | •• | •• | .. | •• | .. | .. | .. | •• | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 43 | P3 | 31 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 24.6 | 6 | 6.0 | 1.7 |
Simple Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | •• | •• | .. | •• | •• | .. | •• | •• | |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 247 | 244 | 196 | 83 | 80 | 173 | 141 | 163 | 55 | 87 | 146.9 | 46 | 35.9 | 13.0 |
Totals | 666 | 615 | 559 | 583 | 430 | 461 | 359 | 394 | 280 | 2.53 | 460.0 | 226 | 112.3 | 64.2 |