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St Pancras 1928

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

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Table: Economic Conditions.The amount of out-relief granted during the past 10 years is indicated in the following table (kindly supplied by Mr. Bernard Chapman, Clerk to the St. Pancras Guardians), which gives for half-yearly periods the amount spent on out-door relief, and the number chargeable in this respect in the middle week of each half-year:—

Economic Conditions.

The amount of out-relief granted during the past 10 years is indicated in the following table (kindly supplied by Mr. Bernard Chapman, Clerk to the St. Pancras Guardians), which gives for half-yearly periods the amount spent on out-door relief, and the number chargeable in this respect in the middle week of each half-year:—

Half-Year endingAmount spent in the half-year.Numbers chargeable in the middle week of the half-year.
£
Lady day, 19193814754
Michaelmas. 19194557823
Lady day, 19206146899
Michaelmas, 19208161.1079
Lady day, 1921130811660
Michaelmas, 1921214003529
Lady day, 1922400816429
Michaelmas, 1922345916325
Lady day, 1923341936425
Michaelmas, 1923283125489
Lady day, 1924316905290
Michaelmas, 1924266074723
Lady day, 1925267664319
Michaelmas, 1925312904267
Lady day, 1926360615427
Michaelmas, 1926433516242
Lady day, 1927451595695
Michaelmas, 1927378254998
Lady day, 1928398125313
Michaelmas, 1928353014610

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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated during the year was 1991. This is equal to a rate
of 9*7 per 1000 of total population.
. The average yearly number of marriages during the preceding five years was 1,894,
equal to a rate of 8 7 per 1000 of population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year belonging to St. Pancras was -3,274,
equal to an annual birth rate of 15*9 per 1000 of population.
The rate for the previous year, which was the lowest ever recorded in the Borough,
was 15'5.
The actual number of births registered as having taken place in the Borough during
the year was 3,980, but this figure has to be corrected by deducting the births of nonresidents,
which occurred chiefly in various hospitals and other institutions in the Borough—
these numbered 1,259, and by adding the births belonging to St. Pancras which occurred
outside the Borough—these numbered 553. The corrected figure being therefore as stated
above, 3,274.
The corresponding figures for previous years are given in Table 1, on page 92.