London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following table gives the birth and death-rate in each year since the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Acts.
| year. | Census Population. | Births, | Birth-rate per 1000. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1000. | Decennial average annual death-rate re-calculated. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | ... | 6051 | 32.3 | 3857 | 20.62 | ... |
| 1857 | ... | 6127 | 33.3 | 3831 | 20.23 | ... |
| 1858 | ... | 6347 | 33.1 | 4708 | 24.58 | ... |
| 1859 | ... | 6604 | 34.0 | 4415 | 22.24 | ... |
| 1860 | ... | 6491 | 33.0 | 4234 | 21.56 | ... |
| 1861 | 198788 | 6831 | 34.2 | 4701 | 23.00 | ... |
| 1862 | ... | 6808 | 33.5 | 4539 | 21.80 | ... |
| 1863 | ... | 7277 | 34.7 | 4854 | 23.28 | ... |
| 1864 | ... | 7235 | 34.6 | 5415 | 26.03 | ... |
| 1865 | ... | 7419 | 34.6 | 5220 | 24.80 | 23.02 |
| 1866 | ... | 7289 | 33.4 | 5251 | 24.45 | ... |
| 1867 | ... | 7489 | 34.1 | 4845 | 24.25 | ... |
| 1868 | ... | 7729 | 35.1 | 4858 | 22.51 | ... |
| 1869 | ... | 7580 | 33.7 | 5942 | 22.81 | ... |
| 1870 | ... | 7632 | 31.6 | 5420 | 24.15 | ... |
| 1871 | 221455 | 7538 | 33.8 | 5430 | 25.19 | ... |
| 1872 | ... | 7891 | 35.1 | 4930 | 21.28 | ... |
| 1873 | ... | 8095 | 35.1 | 5276 | 22.32 | ... |
| 1874 | ... | 8010 | 35.0 | 4986 | 21.75 | ... |
| 1875 | ... | 8000 | 34.5 | 5401 | 23.33 | 23.22 |
| 1876 | ... | 8317 | 35.7 | 5019 | 21.54 | ... |
| 1877 | ... | 8126 | 34.4 | 4927 | 20.88 | ... |
| 1878 | ... | 8249 | 34.6 | 5068 | 21.71 | ... |
| 1879 | ... | 8226 | 34.2 | 5189 | 21.62 | ... |
| 1880 | ... | 8038 | 34.2 | 501l | 21.32 | ... |
| 1881 | 236209 | 7943 | 33.6 | 5000 | 21.16 | ... |
| 1882 | ... | 7772 | 32.6 | 4730 | 19.89 | ... |
| 1883 | ... | 7719 | 32.2 | 4677 | 19.55 | ... |
| 1881 | ... | 7905 | 32.5 | 4795 | 19.72 | ... |
| 1885 | ... | 7520 | 31.2 | 4794* | 19.89 | 20.79 |
The figures in the right hand column of the accompanying
table are re-calculated on the actual number of deaths occurring
in the ten years, and the enumerated population according to the
Census in the middle of the decennium, so that the chance of
error is reduced to a minimum, and the decennial figures are
fairly comparable.
If we compare the decennial annual average death-rate for the
years 1876 to 1885, when the effects of sanitation are beginning
to bear fruit, with the death-rate of the previous decade, we find
* Including 95 Parishioners dying in Extra-Metropolitan Lunatic Asylums
in former years not added to the number of deaths, if omitted as previously,
the death-rate would be 19.50 for 1885.