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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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INQUESTS.
causes of death, as certified by the Coroner ; they are also further classified into age-periods:—
| Causes. | Under 1 year. | 1—5 years. | 5—15 years. | 15—25 years. | 25—65 years. | 65 and over. | Totals. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 26 | 27 | 56 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 8 | 3 | — | — | 6 | 2 | 19 | ||
| Cerebral Haemorrhage. | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Tuberculosis | — | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Cancer | — | — | — | — | 8 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| Other causes | 5 | — | 1 | — | 12 | 10 | 28 | ||
| — | 6 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 38 | |||
| Burns and Scalds | — | 5 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Railway | — | — | — | 2 | 10 | — | 12 | ||
| Other causes* | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 46 | ||
| — | — | — | 1 | 21 | 5 | 27 | |||
| — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |||
| 1 | — | — | — | 3 | — | 4 | |||
| Totals | 21 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 125 | 71 | 260 | ||
* Includes 2 cases of coal gas poisoning.
† ,, 8 cases,, ,,
Section V.—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Inspections.—Altogether 68,577 inspections were made in 1924 by the staff of Inspectors
and Visitors. These consisted of 35,546 initial inspections and 33,031 re-inspections.
Of these inspections, 38,871 were made by the District Sanitary Inspectors, 7,369 by
the Sanitary Inspectors of Food and Food places, 3,606 by the Sanitary Inspector of
Factories and Workshops, and 18,731 by the Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health
Visitors.
The inspections made by each individual Inspector and Visitor are shown in Table 10,
on page 111.
The work of the various classes of Inspectors and Visitors is set out in Tables 7, 8 and
9, on pages 107 to 110.
The inspections dealt with above are exclusive of the visits made by the Council's
staff at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (see page 21), and by the staff of the
Tuberculosis Dispensaries (see page 47) ; nor do they include the work of the disinfecting
staff (see page 61).