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111 deaths in the Strand Union Workhouse, and 10 deaths in the Highgate
Infirmary, of non-parishioners. The number of deaths is thus reduced to
5,299, or 5,814 for the year of 365 days.
During the same period there were registered 7,632 births, from which
must be deducted 37 births in the Strand Union Workhouse, and one birth
in the Highgate Infirmary of children born of pauper non-parishioners;
and the correct number of births is thus reduced to 7,594, or 7,615 for the
year of 365 days.
The natural increase of the population in 1870 was hence 2,301.
The births exceeded those of 1869 by 38; the deaths exceeded those of
that year by 352; and the natural increase of the population was 293 less
than in the preceding year.
In 1870, the death-rate was 24.15 per 1,000.
In 1869, ,, „ 22.81 ,,
In 1868, „ „ 22.50 ,,
In 1867, „ „ 22.25 ,,
In 1866, „ „ 24.45 ,,
In 1865, „ „ 24.80 ,,
In 1864, „ „ 26.03 ,,
In 1863, „ „ 23.28 ,,
In 1862, „ „ 21.80 ,,
In 1861, „ „ 23.00 ,,
The average annual rate of mortality of the 10 years 1861-70, was 23.51
per 1,000 persons living. The death-rate in 1870 hence exceeded the
average of the last 10 years, and was 1.34 per 1,000 above that of 1869.
The birth-rate was 34.61 per 1,000, or very nearly the same as in the
preceding year.
In the metropolis, as a whole, the annual rate of mortality in 1870 was
24.12 per 1,000; in the North District, of which St. Pancras forms a part,
the rate of mortality was 23.8 per 1,000. The death-rate in St. Pancras
was thus 0.03 per 1,000 above the metropolitan average, and 0.35 per 1,000
above that of the North Districts of the metropolis.
MORTALITY IN THE SEVERAL SUB-DISTRICTS AND IN
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
In the year 1870, the deaths, excluding those that occurred in public
institutions, exceeded those of 1869 in every sub-district, except in that of
Gray's Inn, where the deaths were slightly below those of the preceding
year.
In all the public institutions in the parish the deaths exceeded those
of 1869.