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St Pancras 1896
Forty-first annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the vital and sanitary condition of the Borough of Saint Pancras, London
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of the last fifteen years be regarded, and the Census of 1881 and 1896 be
be taken as bases, the estimate for the Census of 1901 works out at 242,285, a
more probable number.
As it does not seem possible for the population of St. Pancras and subdistricts
to increase or diminish at a compound rate of interest, but rather to
vary in a simple arithmetical manner, the use of logarithms appears to be
too refined, and to lead to fallacious estimates. It is more desirable to assume
the simpler method of arithmetical variation. Assuming that only the population
of the Kentish Town sub-district is varying, and increases in the same
proportion as between the Census of 1891, and that of 1896, namely, by 2,645
persons, it follows that arithmetically this represents an annual increase to
the Kentish Town and the St. Pancras population of 529, this again represents
an increase of 132 persons quarterly, and makes the population in the
middle of 1896 in St. Pancras 240,896, and in Kentish Town 98,542.
To these figures must also be added the population of certain institutions
beyond St. Pancras, as the deaths of the residents in those institutions are
included in the statistics of St. Pancras, and this extra parochial population
must be distributed pro rata, and added to the population of the several subdistricts,
as in the following tables:—
| St. Anne's Home, Streatham | 413 persons, |
| Lunatic Asylums | 700 „ |
| Imbecile and Idiot Asylums | 771 „ |
| Fever and Small-pox Hospitals | 121 „ |
| 2,105 „ |
| Regent's Park. | Tottenham Court. | Gray's Inn Lane. | Somers Town. | Camden Town. 1 | Kentish Town. | St. Pancras. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census 1896 | 37341 | 26757 | 29426 | 32161 | 166069 | 98410 | 240764 |
| Plus a quarter's increase | 132 | 132 | |||||
| Estimated to middle 1896 | 37341 | 26757 | 29426 | 32161 | 16669 | 98542 | 240896 |
| Plus Extra-Parochial Residents | 326 | 234 | 257 | 281 | 146 | 861 | 2105 |
| Corrected to middle 1896 | 37667 | 26991 | 29683 | 32442 | 16815 | 99403 | 243001 |
As to the past estimate of population.—The estimate of the population for
1895 was too low, and consequently the death-rate was made to appear higher
than it really was. In order to show this, and to show the corrected deathrates
the following Table has been prepared, in which will be seen a