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St Pancras 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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St. Pancras, 20.7, and of London, 21.1. The following are the death-rates of the various sub-districts, 339 deaths from all causes unassignable to any particular districts being distributed according to population:—

Sub-Districts.Number of Deaths.Death-Rate.
Regent's Park76819.5
Tottenham Court56720.7
Gray's Inn Lane73524.0
Somers Town88025.5
Camden Town31918.6
Kentish Town160817.2
St. Pancras487720.15

In all the tables that follow in the body of the Report, the deaths have been
corrected as to numbers, and wherever compared as to sub-districts, the deaths not
assignable to any particnlar sub-district have been distributed according to population.
The births in the Workhouse have been similarly distributed.

AGES AT DEATH. The corrected number of deaths at several ages in St. Pancras and the sub-districts were as follows :—

Sub-Districts.under 1under 55-65Over <55Total
Regent's Park ...179271293150714
Tottenham Court - - -13921322789529
Grav's Inn Lane169270304119693
Somers Town - - -207346333153832
Camden Town -9813311646295
Kentish Town ...4176295682831480
Uncertain ....2226102206334
St. Pancras -12311888194310464877