Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE A. Shewing the Estimated Population of the Sub-Districts, and the Death-rate per 1000 in each during the year 1867.
Birth Rate per 1000. | Estimated Population. | Estimated No. of Deaths. | Death-rate per 1000. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
32.5 | Regent's Park | 38,000 | 796 | 20.9 |
30.7 | Tottenham Court | 28,000 | 633 | 22.6 |
35.0 | Grays Inn | 27,700 | 677 | 24.4 |
36.5 | Somers Town | 37,500 | 915 | 24.4 |
Camden Town | 18,000 | 393 | 20.1 | |
35.6 | Kentish Town | 67,590 | 1,358 | 20.2 |
University College Hospital | 160 | |||
Saint Pancras Workhouse | 1780 | |||
Royal Free Hospital | 100 | |||
Strand Union Workhouse | 570 | |||
The whole Parish | 221,000 | 4,772 | 21.6 |
TABLE B. Shewing the Bates of Births to Deaths in the several Sub-Districts.
Estimated Population. | Births. | Registered Deaths. | Estimated Mortality. | Rates of Births to Deaths. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
38,000 | Regent's Park | 1,235 | 650 | 796 | 1000 : 644 |
28,000 | Tottenham Court | 860* | 525 | 633 | 1000 : 736 |
27,700 | Grays Inn | 968 | 571 | 677 | 1000 : 699 |
37,500 | Somers Town | 1,371 | 771 | 915 | 1000 : 667 |
19,600 | Camden Town | 611† | 318 | 393 | 1000 : 520 |
67,370 | Kentish Town | 2,396 | 1,099 | 1,358 | 1000 : 567 |
160 | University College Hospital | 234 | |||
100 | Royal Free Hospital | 86 | |||
2,000 | Saint Pancras Workhouse | 227 | 516 | ||
570 | Strand Union Workhouse | 61 | 86 | ||
221,000 | 7,668 | 4,856 | 4,772 | 1000 : |
* In this column, 61 Births have been subtracted for Children born in the Strand Union.
† In this Sub-District, 227 Births have been subtracted to allow for the Workhouse.
‡ This column is obtained by omitting Deaths in the Strand Union, and distributing the
838 Deaths in University College and Royal Free Hospitals, and the Saint Pancras Workhouse,
amongst the Sub-Districts in the ratio of the populations.