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STPAN 18
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
OP THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE YEAR 1861.
TO THE VESTRY OF SAINT PANGEAS.
Gentlemen,
I have the honor to present to you my Sixth Annual Report,
which contains an account of the vital statistics of your Parish, and the
sanitary operations carried on during the year 1861.
During the year 1861 the deaths in St. Pancras, exclusive of 121 in the
Strand Union Workhouse, numbered 4579. The births numbered 6831 during
the same period.
If the population in the middle of the year be taken to be the same as was
determined by the census in April, namely, 198,788, the death-rate is found
to have been 2.3 per cent, or 230 per ten thousand.
In London, as a whole, the death-rate was very nearly the same, about
2.317 per cent. It was lower than this in the other Northern Districts of the
Metropolis, so also in the Western Districts, and the Southern Districts. The
death-rate was higher in the Eastern Districts, about 24 per thousand, and
higher still in the Central Districts, about 25 per thousand. These facts are
exhibited in detail in Table A.
As compared with preceding years, the death-rate in 1861 was higher than
in 1860, about the same as in 1859, lower than in 1858, higher than in 1857,
and about the same as the mean death-rate from 1848 to 1857.
The different sub-districts of the Parish as usual exhibit considerable
differences in their death-rates, the highest being 2.47 per cent. in Tottenham
Court, and the lowest being 2.17 per cent. in Kentish Town—a difference of