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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 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras]
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| Diseases. | Regent's Park, pop. 36.392, | Tottenham Court, pop. 26,319. | Gray's Inn Lane, pop. 27,418. | Somers Town, pop. 32,841. | Camden Town, pop. 15,461. | Kentish Town, pop. 95,775. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population—1891 Census. | |||||||
| Small-pox | – | – | l | – | – | – | 1 |
| Cholera | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 7 | 13 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 67 | 131 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 51 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Typhoid or Enteric Fever | 5 | 8 | 5 | – | 2 | 6 | 28 |
| Relapsing Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Continued Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 9 | 12 |
| Totals | 22 | 29 | 28 | 33 | 11 | 111 | 234 |
From the preceding Tables the Case-fatality of each of the diseases appears as follows:—
| Cases. | Deaths. | Fatality per cent. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 14 | 1 | 7.1 |
| Cholera | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 538 | 131 | 24.3 |
| Erysipelas | 408 | 11 | 2.7 |
| Scarlatina, or Scarlet Fever | 1053 | 51 | 4.8 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – |
| Typhoid, or Enteric Fever | 144 | 28 | 19.4 |
| Relapsing Fever | 1 | – | – |
| Continued Fever | 3 | – | – |
| Puerperal Fever | 17 | 12 | 70.6 |
| Totals | 2178 | 234 | 10.7 |
Diphtheria.—In the Annual Report for last year were produced a number
of statistics in reference to Diphtheria from which certain deductions were
drawn. Amongst other things it was shown that the death-rate from
Diphtheria per million living per annum in all London in 1891 was 340, in
1892 was 462, that in 1893 it suddenly leaped up to 760, a truly epidemic
year, in 1894 it fell to 614, and now in 1895 it has further fallen to 529.
In the Registrar General's Annual Summary the deaths from Diphtheria
in each of the Metropolitan Sanitary Areas in each of the nine years 1887 to