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9
Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1916.
Part I.—GENERAL STATISTICS.
For the purposes of this Report the year 1916 consists of the 52 weeks
ended 30th December, 1916.
POPULATION.
The estimated total population of St. Pancras at the middle of 1916,
including soldiers and sailors recruited from the borough, was 218,387. This
is the census population of 1911, and is adopted as the estimate, instead of the
lower estimate of the Registrar-General, because the returns of the Rating
Department as to occupied houses do not indicate a decrease in the total
population since the census year. The Registrar-General's estimate is based
on the assumption that the ratio between the total and civilian population is
the same in the Borough as in England and Wales as a whole.
The removal from the borough of many enlisted men of military age has,
however, made it inadvisable to use this estimate in calculating the death rates
of the civil population, and the Registrar-General's estimate of the civil
population (196,813) is adopted for this purpose. Corresponding figures for
the wards do not exist.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in St. Pancras during 1916 was 2281
(including marriages of soldiers and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 10.4
per 1,000 total population.