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STPAN 19
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOB THE YEAR 1862.
TO THE VESTRY OF SAINT PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
During the year 1862, the deaths registered in St. Paneras,
exclusive of 151 in the Strand Union Workhouse, numbered 4388;* the births
during the same period were 6808 in number. As compared with ten previous
years, the mortality is rather lower; the average mortality of ten years (raised
10 per cent., for the increase in population) was 4675, including the deaths in
the Strand Union, and the mortality in 1862 (also including the deaths from
the Strand) was 4539.
If the population in the middle of 1862 be taken as 203,000, the rate of
mortality was, without the Strand Union deaths, 21.6 per thousand, or with
the Strand Union deaths, 22.4 per thousand. In the whole of London the
rate of mortality was 23.49 per thousand; in the group of districts, of which
St. Pancras is one, namely the Northern Districts, the rate of mortality was
21.96 per thousand. This group includes St. Marylebone, Ilampstead,
Islington, and Hackney.
The birth-rate in St. Paneras was 33.5 per thousand; in London it was
33.77 per thousand.
* The number represents what were registered in 52 weeks ending December 27th, 1862; the
number registered as actually occurring in 1862, from January 1st to December 31st, was 4 more
than this, viz., 4392, excluding the Strand. Of these, 76 persons died in University College
Hospital, and 80 in the Royal Free Hospital, who had been brought from other districts; and
in outlying Hospitals, viz., Middlesex (45), King's College (12), Bartholomew's (12), the
Children's (18), the Fever (38), and Charing Cross (1), 126 St. Paneras people died. If corrections
be made for these numbers, the mortality would be reduced to 4362; but this probably
would bo too great a reduction, because it is likely that in other London Hospitals not mentioned
some St. Paneras people died.