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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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 Park | 768 | 19.5 |
Tottenham Court | 567 | 20.7 |
Gray's Inn Lane | 735 | 24.0 |
Somers Town | 880 | 25.5 |
Camden Town | 319 | 18.6 |
Kentish Town | 1608 | 17.2 |
St. Pancras | 4877 | 20.15 |
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 1 | under 5 | 5-65 | Over <55 | Total |
Regent's Park ... | 179 | 271 | 293 | 150 | 714 |
Tottenham Court - - - | 139 | 213 | 227 | 89 | 529 |
Grav's Inn Lane | 169 | 270 | 304 | 119 | 693 |
Somers Town - - - | 207 | 346 | 333 | 153 | 832 |
Camden Town - | 98 | 133 | 116 | 46 | 295 |
Kentish Town ... | 417 | 629 | 568 | 283 | 1480 |
Uncertain .... | 22 | 26 | 102 | 206 | 334 |
St. Pancras - | 1231 | 1888 | 1943 | 1046 | 4877 |