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St Pancras 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in 1921 was 2,071. This is equal to a rate of 9.8
per 1,000 total population.
BIRTHS.
The net number of births for St. Pancras registered in 1921 was 4,764, making an annual
birth-rate of 22.4 per 1,000 total population.
The number of births registered as having taken place in the borough was 5,099, and the net figure
is obtained by deducting 335. which, according to information supplied by the Registrar General, is the excess
of births to non-parishioners occurring within the borough over births to parishioners occurring outside the
borough.
The corresponding figures for previous years and for the different wards and registration
sub-districts in the borough will be found in Tables 1 and 4 on pages 86 and 92.
It will be seen on reference to Table 1 that the birth rate for 1921 was smaller than
for 1920, when there had been a great increase, due evidently to temporary post-war conditions.
The following table shows the quarterly figures in recent years.
| Year. | Number of Births (Uncorrected). | Total for Year (Uncorrected). | Total for Year (Corrected). | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Qtr. | 2nd Qtr. | 3rd Qtr. | 4th Qtr. | |||
| 1913 | 1,335 | 1,268 | 1 266 | 1,298 | 5,167 | 5,517 |
| 1914 | 1,222 | 1,234 | 1,271 | 1,218 | 4,945 | 5,225 |
| 1915 | 1,259 | 1,129 | 1,036 | 1,034 | 4,458 | 4,754 |
| 1916 | 1,048 | 1,140 | 1,050 | 1,072 | 4,310 | 4,530 |
| 1917 | 1,046 | 974 | 797 | 818 | 3,635 | 3,796 |
| 1918 | 842 | 840 | 848 | 809 | 3,339 | 3,318 |
| 1919 | 775 | 747 | 977 | 1,305 | 3,804 | 3,824 |
| 1920 | 1,806 | 1,581 | 1,453 | 1,351 | 6,191 | 5,934 |
| 1921 | 1,325 | 1,308 | 1,241 | 1,225 | 5,099 | 4,764 |
| 1922 | 1,326 | 1,288 | - | - | - | - |
1,335 births occurred in Public Institutions in St. Pancras, equal to 26.2 per cent. of the
total births which took place in the borough.
Table 5, on page 93, shows the birth-rate for 1921 of England and Wales, the County of
London, the several metropolitan boroughs, and certain of the large towns with populations
exceeding 125,000.
Illegitimacy.
Of the 4,764 net St. Pancras births, 264, or 5.5 per cent., were returned as illegitimate.
The corresponding figures for 1920, 1919, 1918, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914 and 1913, were 5.6,
8.4, 9.5, 7.2, 7.0, 5.4, 4.4 and 4.7 per cent. respectively.
Of the 5,099 births in St. Pancras (uncorrected) 352 or 6.9 per cent. were returned as
illegitimate.
Notification of Births.
5,107 notifications of births were received during 1921, including 173 still-births and
4,934 live births, or 97 per cent. of the births registered as having taken place in the borough.
Details in regard to the notifications will be found on page 26.