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maintained, there would have been 232,000 persons living in St. Pancras in
the middle of 1869. A more accurate method of calculation gives the
population as 224,500 at that period; and this number is probably not far
from the true number. Taking then the population in round numbers as
224,000, there was in 1869 a birth-rate of 33.73, and an annual rate of
mortality of 22.15 per 1000 persons living in 1869.
In 1869, the death rate was 22.15 per 1000.
„ 1868, „ „ 21.69
„ 1867, „ „ 21.54
„ 1866, „ „ 23.50
„ 1865, „ „ 23.72
„ 1864, „ „ 25.35
„ 1863 „ „ 23.06
„ 1862, „ „ 21.60
The average annual rate of mortality of the 8 years, 1862-9, was 22.83
per 1000.
In the Metropolis, as a whole, the annual rate of mortality in 1869
was 24.66 per 1000 ; in the North Districts, of which St. Pancras forms a
part, the rate of mortality was 23.71 per 1000. The death rate in St.
Pancras was thus not only below that of the metropolis generally, but also
below that of its North Districts.
In the year before us, the mortality of London was exceptionally high
everywhere, except in the West Districts and in South London, where the
effects of drainage are manifest. It will be observed that in this parish,
the annual rate of mortality was slightly in excess of that of the two
preceding years, and a little less than that of the average of the last 8 years.
MORTALITY IN THE SEVERAL SUB-DISTRICTS, AND
IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
In the year before us, the deaths excluding those that occurred in the
Workhouses, exceeded those of the preceding year in the sub-districts of
Regent's Park, Kentish Town, Camden Town, and Somers Town, that is,
in the localities lying North of Euston Road, whilst in the sub-districts of
Tottenham Court, and of Gray's Inn Road, lying South of Euston Road,
the deaths were fewer than in 1868.
In every one of the Public Institutions situate in the St. Pancras, that
is to say, in the Parish Workhouse, in the Strand Union Workhouse, and
in Royal Free and University College Hospitals, the deaths were fewer than
in 1868.
The mortality in the Workhouse Infirmary last year has attracted
much attention, and has unhappily given rise to much difference of opinion,
not to say strife. So late as the 19th February, 1870, the Registrar