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Considerable alterations have taken place since 1911 in the occupations
owing to the War and to other circumstances.
It will be seen from the Table that. St. Pancras is largely industrial. This
is reflected in the housing conditions, of which the most characteristic feature
is the prevalence of the "tenement house." These details in regard to
housing are set out at some length in Section VIII. (page 81), and it may
be sufficient at this place to mention that in 1911 the 22,246 "inhabited
houses" were inhabited by 52,994 "families or separate occupiers"; that
there were 11,452 one-room tenements, 15,568 two-room tenements, and
10,421 three-room tenements; and that a population of 51,214, or
25.5 per cent, of the total population in "private families" were living in
8,875 tenements with more than two occupants per room. The overcrowding
and the tenement-house system and their attendant evils constitute one of the
gravest problems in the Borough, and an important factor in the housing
position in the metropolis as a whole.
In connection with the housing and industrial position, it is to be noted
that there is a considerable population working in St. Pancras and living
elsewhere, and vice versa.
VITAL STATISTICS.
For the purposes of this Report, the year 1919 consists of the fifty-two
weeks ended 27th December, 1919.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in 1919 was 2,633 (including marriages
of soldiers and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 11.5 per 1,000 total
population.
BIRTHS.
The net number of births for St. Pancras registered during 1919 was
3,824, making an annual birth-rate of 16.7 per 1,000 total population.
The number of births registered as having taken place in the Borough was
3,804, and the net figure is obtained by adding 20, which, according to
information received from the Registrar-General, is the excess of births to
parishioners occurring outside the Borough over births to non-parishioners
occurring inside the Borough.
The corresponding figures for previous years and for the different wards
and registration sub-districts in the Borough will be found in Tables
1 and 4 on pages 100 and 106.
It will be seen (page 100) that there was a tendency for the birthrate,
which had been falling for some years, to recover in 1919. From
the following quarterly Table it will be seen that this recovery took place
mainly in the last quarter of the vear.
The table shows also the nrst two
quarters of 1920, in which the increase in births was still more pronounced:—