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STPAN 28
S T. PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the 1871.
To the Vestrymen of St. Pancras.
Gentlemen,
When the census was taken on April 2nd, 1871, the
population enumerated in this parish was 221,594. The annual increase of
population between 1861 and 1871 had been 1.1 per cent.; hence the average
population of St. Pancras for the year under notice was 222,200, and these
figures form the basis of the calculations in this report.
In the 52 weeks ending on December 30th, 1871, 7588 births were
registered in the parish. From these figures a deduction must be made of
49 children, born of pauper non-parishioners in the Strand Union Workhouse.
The corrected number of births is thus, 7489, or 7510 for the year
of 365 days.
The number of registered deaths during the year of 365 days was 5458.
Deducting 124 deaths in the Strand Union Workhouse, and 57 deaths of
non-parishioners in the Highgate Infirmary, adding 263 deaths of parishioners
in the Hampstead Small Pox Hospital, 40 in the Highgate Small
Pox Hospital, 9 in the Islington Workhouse Hospital, and 9 in the London
Fever Hospital; the actual mortahty of parishioners becomes 5598 in the
year of 365 days.
The natural increase of the population was hence 1912.
The natural increase in 1867 was 2724.
„ „ 1868 2915.
„ „ 1869 2594.
„ „ 1870 2301.
„ „ 1871 1912.
If we go further back, this progressive diminution in the natural rate of