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Next to Diarrhoea, came Hooping Cough with 211; then Cholera with 130
deaths; then Scarlatina with 121 deaths; Typhus and Typhoid 116; besides
47 Typhus and 7 Typhoid, who died in the London Fever Hospital; 101 Measles ;
43 from Small Pox, besides 16 who died at the Small Pox Hospital; then 31
from Diphtheria, and 36 from Croup.
The following figures represent approximately the annual rate of mortality
in this Parish since 1855:—
In 1856 2.00 percent.
„ 1857 2.00
„ 1858 2.31
„ 1859 2.19
„ 1860 2.15
„ 1861 2.30
„ 1862 2.16
„ 1863 2.306 „
,,1864 2.535 „
„ 1865 2.372 „
„ 1866 2.35
These are the rates of mortality calculated by me in my various Annual
Reports; they are liable to slight inaccuracy from the impossibility of accurately
ascertaining the population of the Parish, except at the year of the census.
The population in 1865 was estimated at 217,430, which was probably too
high, so that the per centage rate of mortality above given for that year is too
high. In 1866, I have adopted the Registrar General's estimate, 219,024. The
actual number of deaths in St. Pancras in 1865, was 5159; and in 1866, it was
5154, in each case omitting the deaths which occurred in the Strand Union.
The rate of mortality was therefore higher in 1864 than 1865, and in 1865
than in 1866.