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St Pancras 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1921.
For the purpose of this Report, the year 1921 consists of the 52 weeks ended 31s£ December, 1921.
Section I.—VITAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
PULATION.
The national census having been taken on 19th June, 1921, it is possible this year to give
comparatively accurate figures for the population of the borough. The population of St. Pancras
as recorded at the census was 210,986, comprising 99,528 males and 111,458 females. The
Registrar-General concluded that the annual holiday movement had already begun at the time
of the census, and that there was an appreciable number of visitors at the various holiday resorts.
He made a correction for this error in estimating the 1921 mid-yearly population, and for
St. Pancras his estimate of the population at the middle of 1921 is 212,900. The rates in this
report are based on the latter figure.
The census figure represents a decline of 3.4 per cent. since the 1911 census, when the
St. Pancras population was 218,387. According to the Registrar-General's estimate of the
1921 mid-year population the decline was only 2.5 per cent. On the census figures the decline
in the male population was 6.7 per cent. and of the female 0.2 per cent.
Further details of the 1921 census returns are not available at the time of writing.
The following table gives the population of St. Pancras at decennial intervals since 1811:—
| Year. | Males. | Females. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| *1811 | 19,822 | 26,511 | 46,333 |
| *1821 | 31,796 | 40,042 | 71,838 |
| *1831 | 46,058 | 57,490 . | 103,548 |
| *1841 | — | — | 129,763 |
| 1851 | — | — | 166,955 |
| 1861 | 91,113 | 107,675 | 198,788 |
| 1871 | 103,283 | 118,182 | 221,465 |
| 1881 | 112,516 | 123,742 | 236,258 |
| 1891 | 113,514 | 121,235 | 234,749 |
| 1901 | 114,305 | 121,012 | 235,317 |
| 1911 | 106,728 | 111,659 | 218,387 |
| 1921 | 99,528 | 111,458 | 210,986 |
| * From "St. Pancras Vestry. 1718-1900," by Walter E. Brown. | |||
The population is largely industrial and includes a considerable element of the poor.
It was found in the 1911 census that the 22,246 "inhabited houses" were occupied by 52,994
" families or separate occupiers"; that there were 11,452 one-room tenements, 15,568 tworoom
tenements, and 10,421 three-room tenements; and that a population of 51,214, or 25.5
per cent. of the total population in " private families" were living in 8,875 tenements with
more than two occupants per room.
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