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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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allowed to get very dirty and unwholesome. This Company supplies, at
rents varying from four to eight shillings per week, all the conveniences of a
separate cottage. It proceeds upon the principle of being self-supporting,
and has been able to pay a dividend of five per cent, per annum.
There is another Society which has been longer established, called
" The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious
Classes." This Society has a building in the Old Pancras Eoad
(Pancras Square), which accommodates 110 families, with a population of
635 persons. The number of deaths in 1867 was only four, which gives
the very low death-rate of less than seven per thousand; the average deathrate
in 12 years has been somewhat below 17 per thousand. This speaks
very well for the salubrity of this class of buildings. The classes of people
who occupy Stanley Buildings appear to be artizans, policemen, postmen,
compositors, cab-drivers, laundresses, and so on.
Midford Place, Derry Street, Poplar Place, and Wilson Place. The following show a death-rate of between 30 and 40 in the thousand:—Mary Place, Fitzroy Place, Wellington Square, and Ferdinand Place; and the following between 25 and 30 in the thousand :—Compton Place, Henry Street:—
| Names of Streets, &c. | No. of Houses. | Estimated Population. | No. of Deaths in 1867. | Death-rate per 1000 in 1867. | Average No. of Death 8 in 1856-67. | Mean Death-rate per I000 in 11 years. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eden Street | 13 | 230 | 3 | 13.0 | 6.7 | 291 |
| Henry Stree | 50 | 900 | 26 | 28.9 | 31.7 | 35.2 |
| Mary Place | 19 | 270 | 9 | 33.3 | 7.9 | 26.3 |
| Fitzroy Place | 12 | 228 | 8 | 35.1 | — | — |
| Upper Fitzroy Place | 13 | 279 | 9 | 32.2 | — | — |
| Drapers' Place | 32 | 652 | 16 | 24.5 | 17.3 | 27.3 |
| Gresse Street | 36 | 550 | 10 | 18.1 | 17.3 | 31.4 |
| Midford Place | 8 | 170 | 8 | 47.0 | 7.5 | |
| Tottenham Place, and dittoUpper | 33 | 754 | 12 | 15.9 | — | — |
| Holbrook Court and Place | 10 | 100 | 2 | 20 | — | — |
| Stephen Street | 585 | 10 | 17.0 | 1.25 | 21.3 | |
| Compton Place | 19 | 250 | 7 | 28.0 | in 2 years. | — |
| Cromer Street | 115 | 1540 | 28 | 18.3 | — | — |
| Derry Street | 18 | 294 | 14 | 47.6 | — | — |
| Poplar Place | 11 | 120 | 6 | 50.0 | — | — |
| Speedy Place | 23 | 123 | 1 | 8.0 | — | — |
| Wilson Place | 13 | 181 | 10 | 55.2 | — | — |
| Wellington Sqnare | 18 | 260 | 8 | 30.1 | — | — |
| Riley Street | 8 | 122 | 2 | 16.3 | 2 in 6 years | 16.3 |
| Drummond Crescent | 56 | 894 | 12 | 14.0 | — | — |
| Pancras Square | 110 | 650 | 4 | 6.1 | 109 | 16.7 |
| Little George Street | 56 | 725 | 8 | 11.0 | 157 | 21.6 |
| Exmouth Street | 24 | 296 | 4 | 13.5 | — | — |
| Ashby Street | 24 | 320 | 4 | 12.8 | 9 in 6 years | 28.1 |
| Stanley Buildings | 104 | 500 | 3 | 6 | (1866-67) 6.7 | 13.0 |
| Suffolk Street | 50 (?) | 500 | 7 | 14 | (1866-67) 11 | 22.0 |
| Grafton Street | 57 | 950 | 15 | 15.7 | — | — |
| Preston Street | 45 | 670 | 11 | 16.4 | — | — |
| ^Ferdinand Place | 41 | 360 | 14 | 38.8 | — | — |