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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table No. 2. ST. PANCRAS SANITARY DISTRICT. Table shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1888 and 10 years preceding.
| In the Year. | Birth rate, per 1,000 of Population. | Correoted Death rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under 5 years; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths in Public Institutions; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | 30.0 | 18.95 | 150.9 | 239.6 | 404.7 | 263.4 |
| 1887 | 30.9 | 19.98 | 166.9 | 258.3 | 413.5 | 246.3 |
| 1886 | 31.3 | 20.15 | 162.1 | 252.4 | 387.1 | 262.2 |
| 1885 | 31.2 | 19.89 | 153.3 | 241.5 | 386.5 | 245.0 |
| 1884 | 32.5 | 19.72 | 154.8 | 255.1 | 407.0 | 222.3 |
| 1883 | 32.2 | 19.55 | 142.5 | 235.1 | 378.8 | 228.5 |
| 1882 | 32.6 | 19.89 | 142.8 | 234.6 | 412.8 | 183.5 |
| 1881 | 33.6 | 21.16 | 155.3 | 246.8 | 411.0 | 209.4 |
| 1880 | 34.2 | 21.32 | 159.9 | 256.6 | 432.2 | 248.2 |
| 1879 | 342 | 21 62 | 149.6 | 237.2 | 404.7 | 249.5 |
| 1878 | 34.6 | 21.71 | 162.9 | 265.1 | 436.0 | 216.0 |
| Average of 10 years 1878—1887 | 32.7 | 20.60 | 155.0 | 248.2 | 406.9 | 231.0 |