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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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based upon the Census of 1901. The following tables A, B, and C show
respectively—A, the death-rates from phthisis per 100,000 of population in
the Registration Districts from 1896 to 1909, inclusive ; B, the death-rates
per 100,000 from other respiratory diseases for the same areas and years ; and
C, the percentage of statistical overcrowding at the Census of 1901—that is,
more than two persons per room—in each of the Registration Sub-Districts.
This last table, C, is a summary of the table of Census overcrowding in each of
the Enumeration Areas published in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer
of Health for 1903.
A. St. Pancras.—Death Rates from Phthisis per 100,000 of population.
| Sub-Districts. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | ٭1902 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | Kentish Town | 163 | 167 | 175 | 140 | 139 | 167 | 153 | North. |
| East and West or Central | Camden Town | 188 | 302 | 154 | 154 | 191 | 106 | 165 | |
| Somers Town | 198 | 213 | 207 | 271 | 186 | 273 | 222 | ||
| Regent's Park | 199 | 212 | 162 | 191 | 198 | 183 | 162 | ||
| South | Central St. Pancras | 197 | 228 | 178 | 215 | 192 | 181 | 178 | Central |
| Tottenham Court | 211 | 207 | 307 | 296 | 241 | 260 | 296 | ||
| Gray's Inn Lane | 261 | 220 | 243 | 253 | 290 | 190 | 240 | ||
| South St. Pancras | 237 | 214 | 274 | 274 | 267 | 221 | 261 | South. | |
| All St. Pancras | 193 | 200 | 199 | 198 | 196 | 187 | 192 | ||
| †1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | |||
| Central | North St. Pancras | 151 | 144 | 137 | 143 | 151 | 138 | 136 | North. |
| East do. | 158 | 174 | 159 | 184 | 129 | 161 | 157 | ||
| West do. | 193 | 209 | 149 | 160 | 171 | 132 | 152 | ||
| Central do. | 175 | 192 | 151 | 172 | 151 | 147 | 155 | Central | |
| South do | 220 | 216 | 150 | 191 | 184 | 182 | 188 | South. | |
| All do. | 179 | 186 | 119 | 169 | 159 | 153 | 153 |
* Mote.—In 1902 the division line between the Registration Sub-Districts of
Gray's Inn Lane and Tottenham Court was moved westward from
Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens) to Upper Woburn Place.
† Note.—In 1903 triangular pieces of the Camden Town and Somers Town
Sub-Districts were added to the Regent's Park Sub-District to form the
West St. Pancras Sub-District, and the remainder of Camden Town and
Somers Town Sub-Districts were amalgamated to form the East St.
Pancras Sub-District.