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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1919.
Section I-NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF
THE BOROUGH.
POPULATION.
The total population of St. Pancras for 1919 as estimated by the RegistrarGeneral
was 228,585, the civilian population being estimated at 219,434.
The figures have been arrived at on the basis of the rationing returns.
The population enumerated in the 1911 census was 218,387. Since that
date the Registrar-General's estimates have been based on the assumption
that the populatiou was decreasing (the 1901 census was 235,317), and in
1918 his estimate was as low as 196,883 for the total population, and 175,716
for the civilian population. There is reason to believe that throughout the
intercensal period the estimate was too low. The doubt as to the exact
population diminishes the value of annual rates calculated on the estimated
population, and our vital statistics would be greatly improved by the taking
of censuses more often than once in ten years.
PHYSICAL FEATURES AND GENERAL CHARACTER.
The Borough of St. Pancras extends over the area of the parish of the
same name. It is about four miles long north and south, extending from
near Oxford Street to Highgate, and about one mile east and west. It
includes the districts of Kentish Town, Camden Town and Somers Town,
and portions of Clerkenwell, Bloomsburv and Highgate, as well as less well
defined districts spoken of as "Chalk Farm," "Regent's Park," "Euston"
and "King's Cross," and a quarter—largely foreign -to the west of
Tottenham Court Road,