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increase of the population is still more striking. In 1861 the gross increase
was 29 per cent. greater than in 1871, notwithstanding an increase of 11.5
per cent. in the population during the decade. These facts have a very
important bearing upon statistics relating to the mortality of the parish.
Their exact significance cannot however be estimated until more details
respecting the census of 1871 are accessible.
The birth-rate was 38.81 per 1000 persons living; in 1870 it was 34.61
per 1000. The births were fewer by 105 than in the year 1870.
The deaths exceeded by 284 those of the preceding year. The annual
rate of mortality was 25.19 per 1000 persons living.
In 1871, the death-rate was 25.19 per 1000.
,, 1870, ,, ,, 24.15 ,,
„ 1869, „ „ 22.81 ,,
„ 1868, „ „ 22.50 ,,
„ 1867, „ „ 24.25 ,,
,, 1866, „ „ 24.45 „
„ 1865, „ „ 24.80 ,,
„ 1864, „ „ 26.03 ,,
„ 1863, „ „ 23.28 ,,
„ 1862, „ „ 21.80 ,,
„ 1861, „ „ 23.00 ,,
The average annual rate of mortality of the 11 years 1861-1871, was
23.66 per 1000 persons living. The death-rate in 1871 hence exceeded that
of the 11 years 1861.1871 by 1.53, and that of the year 1870 by 1.04. it
was. with the exception of that of 1864, the highest rate of mortality during
the past 11 years.
In the metropolis, as a whole, the annual rate of mortality in 1871 was
24.7 per 1000; in the North District, of which this parish forms a part, the
rate was 25.6 per 1000. The death-rate in St. Pancras was thus 0.49 per
1000 above the metropolitan average. It was 0.9 per 1000 below that of
the North District; but in this estimation of the mortality of the North
District it must not be forgotten that all deaths in the Small Pox Hospitals
at Highgate and Hampstead are included.
MORTALITY IN THE SEVERAL SUB-DISTRICTS AND IN
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
In the sub-districts of Regent's Park, Tottenham Court, and Kentish
Town the deaths were fewer, in the Camden Town sub-district they were
nearly the same, and in the sub-districts of Gray's Inn Road and Somers Town
respectively, the deaths were considerably in excess of those in 1870. If,
however, the deaths of parishioners in extra-parochial hospitals were added,
the mortality would be seen to have been larger in every sub-district in
1871, than in the preceding year. Distributing the deaths in the workhouse,
and the deaths in hospitals over the sub-districts in proportion to
their respective populations, we find the annual rate of mortality to have
been, in 1871 : in the whole parish, 25.19; Regent's Park, 25.0; Tottenham
Court, 24.6 ; Gray's Inn Road, 25.9; Somers Town, 27.4; Camden Town,
25.6; and Kentish Town, 24.0.