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CANCER.
258 deaths were registered during 1915 as due to cancer, under the various
names of cancer, carcinoma, epithelioma, scirrhus, rodent ulcer, sarcoma, &c.
This is equal to a death-rate of 1.18 per 1,000 population, and 1.28 per
1,000 civil population (see p. 9).

VACCINATION.
In consequence of the War, the returns in respect of children whose births
were registered in the Parish of St. Pancras from the 1st January to 31st
December, 1914, are not available.
DWELLING HOUSES.
As has been pointed out in previous reports, the housing of the working
classes in St. Pancras is most unsatisfactory. A typical case is a house consisting
of a basement and ground floor with two or more floors above, each
floor (consisting of two rooms) being let out to one family.
It cannot be denied that a family which includes boys and girls needs four
rooms as an irreducible minimum ; one bedroom for the parents, one for the
boys, one for the girls, and one living room. In addition to this, private
scullery and water-closet accommodation is necessary, and also the provision
of a yard or balcony in immediate proximity to the living rooms.
The contrast between these very moderate requirements and the accommodation
which so many St. Pancras working-class people have to put up with
is striking—although, indeed, these people are in the main " respectable,"
and pay rents which ought to secure adequate dwellings.
To indicate this it is sufficient to mention that very many families live in
two rooms without separate kitchen, scullery, food-storage, water-closet, and
yard accommodation for the separate tenements, and without proper separation
between the different tenements in the sub-let houses.