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STPAN 22
Saint Pancras, Middlesex.
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR THE YEAR 1865.
TO THE VESTRY OF SAINT PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
The time has arrived for me to present to you my Tenth Annual
Report—for the year 1865.
During this year the deaths numbered 5,159*; 100 deaths, which occurred
in the Strand Union, being omitted, as not fairly belonging to Saint Pancras.
The population in 1865 I have estimated at 217,430; my estimate has
been based on the assumption, that the population has increased, since 1861, in
the same ratio that it did between the censuses of 1851 and 1861.
The rate of mortality during last year, if this estimate is correct, was
237.2 to every 10,000 living, or 2.372 per cent.
In 1864 the rate of mortality was 2.535 per cent., which was excessively
high.
The following figures represent, approximately, the annual rate of mortality
in St. Pancras for each year since the Metropolis Local Management Act came
into operation:—
In 1856 2.000 per cent.
„ 1857 2.000 „
„ 1858 2.310 ,,
„ 1859 2.190 „
„ I860 2.150 „
„ 1861 2.300 „
„ 1862 2.160 ,,
„ 1863 2.306 „
„ 1864 2.535 „
„ 1865 2.372 „
* This number does not exactly correspond with the number on Table I., which gives the number
registered in the 52 weeks, and not the actual number of deaths which occurred during the 365 days of the
year. A further correction might be made by deducting 184 for those deaths in University College
Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital, which were of persons not previously living in St. Pancras, and
adding 132 for the deaths of St. Pancras people in tne Hospitals of adjoining districts; King's College, 8;
Middlesex, 48; Charing Cross, 5; Children's, 22; Bartholomew's, 12; London Fever, 28; and Small
Pox, 9. This would reduce the mortality from 5,159 to 5,107. These corrections are, however, unnecessary,
because they do not much affect the death-rate, and cannot be made complete.