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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 1.
General Information and
Statistical Summary.
General.
The borough of St. Pancras is about 4 miles long, extending from near Oxford Street in
the south to Highgate in the north, and averages about a mile in width, from the Outer Circle
of Regent's Park in the west to York Way in the east.
| Area of the borough | 2,694 acres |
| Area of various public open spaces | 553 acres |
| Population (1951 Census) | 138,364 |
| Population (Registrar General's mid-1952 estimate) | 139,600 |
| Number of persons per acre (estimated average) | 52 |
| Rateable value | £2,114,144 |
| Product of a penny rate about | £8,650 |
| General rate in the £ for the year | 17s. 8d. |
| Net registered live births | 2,186 |
| Birth-rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) | 15.66 |
| Deaths, all ages | 1,658 |
| Death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) | 11.87 |
| Infantile deaths | 56 |
| Infantile death rate (per 1,000 live births) | 25.61 |
| Tuberculosis deaths | 46 |
| Tuberculosis death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) | .33 |