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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
R E P O R T
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1918.
Part I —GENERAL STATISTICS.
For the purposes of this Report the year 1918 consists of the 52 weeks
ended 28th December, 1918.
POPULATION.
Considerable changes in the population have taken place in this and other
districts owing to the War, from the circumstance that large numbers of
men of military age have been called to the Colours, and other movements
of population occurred in connection with the manufacture of munitions,
&c. It has, therefore, not been possible to continue to use the previous
methods of calculating the population based on the 1911 Census. The
Registrar-General, however, has adopted an estimate of the population based
on various sources of information, and this for the middle of 1918 is 175,716
for the civilian population, exclusive of soldiers and sailors whether serving
at home or abroad, and 196,883 for the total population, including all noncivilian
males from the borough. The former (civilian population) is used in
calculating the death rates, because the deaths among the non-civilian males
are not recorded in the local returns; while the latter rate (total population),
which includes all the elements of the population contributing to the birth
and marriage rates, is used in calculating the latter rates.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in 1918 was 2202 (including marriages
of soldiers and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 11.2 per 1,000 total
population.