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Registrar General at 3,126,685, the annual rate of mortality in 1868 was
23.59 per thousand living; the mortality of the Northern districts, of which
St. Pancras is one, was 22.90.
The mortality of this parish was therefore lower than that of the rest
of London, or of that part of London in which St. Pancras is situated.
The average annual rate of mortality in this parish during the six
years preceding 1868 was 23.13 per thousand; consequently the mortality
in 1868 was 1.44 per thousand below the average of the preceding six years.
The birth-rate in St. Pancras during 1868 was 35.16 per thousand
persons living—the population being estimated at 221,000, and the births
at 7771, which is forty-two more than the number registered in fifty-two
weeks, or three hundred and sixty-four days.
The proportion of deaths 'among children under five years of age was
26.89 per cent. of those born alive; in other words, more than one-fourth
of the children born in this parish die before completing their fifth year.
This infantile mortality is in different districts as follows:—
Gray's Inn 31.30
Camden Town (including Workhouse) 30.07
Tottenham Court 29.54
Somers Town 29.03
Kentish Town 23.25
Regent's Park 23.16
per cent. of the total births.
In four out of the six sub-districts into which the parish is divided,
the mortality among children under five years of age formed more than onehalf
of the respective mortalities in these localities, whilst in Regent's Park
and Tottenham Court the infant mortality formed less than one-half of the
total mortality of those sub-districts. In Camden Town (not including
the Workhouse) the infantile mortality also exceeded half the total mortality.
Among preventable diseases, Small Pox stands with a smaller mortality
than in 1867, since twelve deaths only were registered from this
cause, besides eleven deaths among St. Pancras parishioners in the Small
Pox Hospital; whilst in 1867 there were sixty-five deaths from it, besides
eleven deaths in the Small Pox Hospital. From Scarlatina, the number of
deaths was 237, and in 1867 only 101; thus shewing a largely increased
mortality from this eminently preventible disease. 128 children died of
Hooping Cough, a decrease of 38 deaths when compared with the mortality
in 1867. From Diarrhoea and Cholera, 225 children and 31 adults died;
the numbers in 1867 being 185 and 26 respectively. Typhus and Enteric
(typhoid) Fevers were rather more fatal than in 1867, 99 deaths having
occurred from them, besides 23 deaths in the London Fever Hospital among
St. Pancras parishioners, making a total of 122 deaths. In 1867 the mortality
from these diseases was 108.