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St Pancras 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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information is given by the Registrar to the Local Authority, the Minister of Health has
intimated that the Medical Officer of Health shall arrange for enquiries to be made in order
that he may be satisfied that the child was really still born and that there were no suspicious
circumstances attaching to the case.
In accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health, the following table is included which gives particulars, by sex and legitimacy," with referenee to all still births registered in the Borough during the year:—
| Still Births Registered. | Inward Transfers. | Outward Transfers. | Still Births Allocated to the Borough. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Legitimate and | Males | 106 | 58 | 55 | |
| Illegitimate | Females | 66 | 46 | 22 | ||
| Illegitimate | Males | 9 | - | 4 | 5 | |
| Females | 6 | - | 3 | 3 | ||
Inward transfers relate to still births belonging to the Borough, but which took place in
some other area. Outward transfers refer to still births of non-residents, but which took
place in the Borough.
DEATHS.
The actual number of deaths registered as having taken place in the Borough during the
year was 2,862. This number has to be corrected by the exclusion of 1,083 deaths which
occurred in the Borough of persons who were not St. Pancras residents, and by the inclusion
of 629 deaths of residents which occurred and were registered outside the Borough.
The net number of St. Pancras deaths registered during the year was accordingly
2,408 ; equal to an annual death rate of 12*8 per 1000 of population.
The corresponding rate for the previous year was 13.7 and the average yearly death
rate of the Borough for the previous five years was 13.5 per 1000 of population.
Details of the corresponding figures for previous years will be found in the table on
page 14.
Adjusted Death Rate.
The following explanatory passages are quoted from a memorandum issued by the
Registrar-General in March, 1935:—
"At the end of Table S.D. 24 (on page 26) will be found a factor (labelled C.F. 102)
by which the crude death rate of the area should be multiplied in order to make it comparable,
from a mortality point of view, with the crude death rate of the country as a whole, or with
the mortality of any other local area, the crude death rate of which should be similarly
modified with its own factor for the purpose."
The necessity for the application of this factor arises from the fact that the populations
of all areas are not" similarly coEstituted as regards the proportions of their sex and age group