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STPAN 24
Saint Pancras, Middlesex.
TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of health,
For the Year 1867.
Gentlemen,
Iu presenting another Annual Report on tlie sanitary condition of this
Parish, I am enabled to congratulate you on a much lower death-rate than
has prevailed for several years past. Although the population of the Parish
has much increased in the past six years, the number of deaths registered in
1867 was lower than in any year since 1862.
The actual number of deaths registered as having occurred in St.
Pancras during the year 1867 was 4852, from which should be deducted 112
for deaths, in the Strand Union, of persons not in any way belonging to this
Parish. This will bring the number to 4740. At a distance of six years
from the last Census, it is impossible accurately to determine the population
of the Parish, so as to calculate the annual rate of mortality. The population
was estimated in 1866 at 219,024; it was no doubt over 220,000 in
1867. If this be taken as an approximation to the number living in St.
Pancras in the middle of 1867, the death-rate last year was 2.154 per cent,
or 215-4 to every hundred thousand living.
Th6 death-rate in 1866 was 2.350 per cent.
,, 1865 ,, 2.372
,, 1864 „ 2.585
,, 1863 „ 2.306
,, 1862 ,, 2.160
In the whole of London the death-rate in 1867 was 2.298 per cent.,
which is the lowest rate since the year 1860; the deatli-rate of the Northern