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STPAN 27
Saint Pancras, Middlesex.
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1870.
To the Vestrymen of St. Pancras.
Gentlemen,
Since my last Annual Report was presented to you a
new census of the parish has been taken, which enables me to furnish more
correct tables than usual of the respective rates of mortality in the various
sub-districts of the parish, and to correct the returns of past years.
From the appended table it will be seen that the population of St.
Pancras has increased from 198,788 in 1861, to 221,594 in 1871; being an
increase of 22,806. Although St. Pancras is still the most populous parish
in the metropolis, the increase of population is less than was anticipated.
Indeed, the natural increase of population (the excess of births over deaths)
has been somewhat diminished by the excess of the number of emigrants
from the parish over the number of immigrants into the parish.
The population has increased 9.3 per cent. in the ten years 1861-71, in
the Regent's Park sub-district, 5.1 per cent. in the Gray's Inn Lane
sub-district, and 53.9 per cent. in the Kentish Town sub-district; whilst it
has decreased to an inappreciable extent in the Tottenham Court subdistrict,
1.4 per cent. in the Somers Town sub-district, and 22.4 per cent.
in the Camden Town sub-district. In the whole parish the increase was
11.5 per cent.
The increase of house accommodation has not been commensurate with
the increase of population. There are now on the average more persons
inhabiting each house than in 1861, this must exert an injurious effect upon
the health of the parish.
In the middle of the year 1870, the population of St. Pancras was about
220,000.
The number of deaths registered in St. Pancras during the 52 weeks
ending December 31st, 1870, was 5,420, from which should be deducted
200 | 12
22 | 8 | 71.