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STPAN 23
Saint Pancras, Middlesex.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health,
Fob the Year 1866.
Gentlemen,
In the year 1866, the rate of mortality in St. Pancras was high, considerably
higher than the average of ten preceding years; although it included
an epidemic of Cholera, the mortality was not however so high as in 1864 and
1865. In 1841-50, the rate of mortality per thousand was 23, and in 1851-60,
it was only 22. In 1864 it was as high as 25 per thousand; and in 1866, the
year now reported on, it was 23.5 per thousand.
The deaths registered as having occurred in St. Pancras during the year,
numbered 5254; from this are deducted 110, the deaths in the Strand Union
Workhouse, which do not belong to St. Pancras. The population has been estimated
by the Registrar-General, as 219,024, which is based on the increase in
the number of houses upon the rate-books, between 1861 and 1866.
The rate of mortality in all London was 26.47, and of the Northern group
of districts, amongst which St. Pancras is situated, it was 25.31 per thousand.
The mortality in the Eastern Districts, where Cholera proved fatal, was at
the rate of 33.96 per thousand; in the South Districts, where Cholera was so
fatal in 1854, the rate of mortality was only 24.10, lower than in the North.
In the Cholera year, 1849, London suffered from a mortality of 30.14; the
North Districts, 23.68; the East, 31.76; and the South, 37.62 per thousand. In
the Cholera year 1854, London suffered from a mortality of 29.43 per thousand;
the Northern Districts, 24.36 per thousand; the Eastern, 29.98 ; and the
Southern, 34.83 per thousand.
The birth-rate in St. Pancras during 1866 was 33.4 per thousand; in
London, it was 35.67 ; in thirteen large towns, including London, it was 36.85.
Amongst the Zymotic diseases, the most fatal was Diarrhoea, which caused 215
deaths; this is a smaller number, however, than was due to that cause in 1865,
namely, 260.