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St Pancras 1914

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

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14
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough during 1914 was 4,945.
From information received from the Registrar-General the excess of births
to parishioners occurring outside the Borough over births to non-parishioners
occurring inside the Borough was 280.
This correction gives the net number of births for St. Pancras registered
during the year as 5,225, making an annual birth-rate of 23.9 per 1,000
population.

Table: The following table shows the number of births thus corrected, and the birth-rate for each of the four Registration Sub-Districts and eight Wards into which the Borough is divided, and also the corresponding rates in former years. In this table from 1911 onwards the transferred births referred to above are allocated to the Sub-Districts and Wards, in proportion to their respective populations, but some of the births which took place in St. Pancras Institutions are not re-distributed, but are allocated to the Districts in which the Institutions are situated.

The following table shows the number of births thus corrected, and the birth-rate for each of the four Registration Sub-Districts and eight Wards into which the Borough is divided, and also the corresponding rates in former years. In this table from 1911 onwards the transferred births referred to above are allocated to the Sub-Districts and Wards, in proportion to their respective populations, but some of the births which took place in St. Pancras Institutions are not re-distributed, but are allocated to the Districts in which the Institutions are situated.

DISTRICTS.Estimated population.West.South.East.North.Whole borough.Bates for whole Borough calculated on the 1911 census population (218,387).County of london birth rate.
WardTotal.WardTotal,WardTotal.WardTotal.
45783612
Number of Births Registered for the year 1914..6677471414286711997831691152270658612925225
Birth Rate per 1000 population21838725.223.424.215.726.222.023.930.426.519.826.822.523. 9
Birth Rate for the Year 190423708826.921.729.326.825.827.9
,, ,, 190523714925.320.926.225.224.527.1
,, ,, 190623714923.320.627.425.424.226.7
,, ,, 190723717323.917.325.725.223.125.8
,, ,, 190823724724.218.227.623.223.425.2
,, ,, 190923724722.417.924.723.022.124.024.2
,, ,, 191023724722.718.525.523.922.724.723.6
,, ,,191123712923.319.925.524.723.425.424.8
,, ,,191222035322.123.427.724.0*24.424.624.5
,, ,, 191321838723..322.528.224.5*24.724.725.0
,, ,,191421838724.222.026.522.5*23.923.924.3
* For 1911 onwards the number of births and the rates are corrected for inward and outward transfers.