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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 1918
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1918
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In the table below the notified births are classified (in Registration Sub-Districts and Wards) according to the person in attendance upon the mother in her confinement, or where the confinement was in an institution, the institution.
| Births. | W. | S. | E. | N. | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Attended in their own homes by- | |||||||||
| Private Doctors | |||||||||
| Private Midwives Doctors from the Elizabeth Garrett | |||||||||
| Anderson Hospital | — | 2 | |||||||
| Medical Students from— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | |||||||||
| „ Middlesex Hospital | — | — | — | ||||||
| Royal Free Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| „ St. Bartholomew's Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Midwives from— University College Hospital | — | — | |||||||
| ,, Maternity Nursing Association, Myddleton Square | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| „ Maternity Nursing Association, Oakley Square Branch | |||||||||
| Attended in Institutions— | |||||||||
| University College Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Duchess of Marlborough's Maternity Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Homes of Hope, Regent's Square | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lying-inWard of Workhouse | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Royal Free Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
Certain of the notified births set out in the above table as having taken
place in St. Pancras institutions were of infants of mothers not resident in St.
Pancras. On the other hand, a number of St. Pancras mothers were
confined in institutions outside the borough. On page 24 will be found a
table showing the number of births to St. Pancras mothers which took place
in institutions within and without the borough.
DEATHS.
Deaths of civilians only are included in the following figures.
The net number of St. Pancras (civil) deaths registered during the year
was 3,914, making an annual death-rate of 22.3 per thousand civil population.
(The death-rate, calculated upon the estimated total population, would
be 19.9 per thousand).
The gross number of civil deaths registered during the year as having
taken place in the borough was 3,789. Of these 626 were of persons whose
residence was not in St. Pancras (non-parishioners), 537 dying in St. Pancras
Institutions, and 89 in other places in the borough. There were also reported
by the Registrar-General 698 deaths of St. Pancras parishioners who died in
institutions in other parts of the County of London, and 53 who died in other
parts of England and Wales. The net figure on which the death-rate is
based is corrected for inward and outward transfers.