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St. Pancras, Middlesex.
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
medical officer of health,
Being the Report for the Year 1872.
TO THE VESTRYMEN OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
In the year 1872, 7,913 births were registered in the
Parish of St. Pancras; or, more correctly 7,891 births during the
fifty-two weeks ending on the 28th December, 1872. The number
of births of males largely exceeded those of females; the ratio being
4,073 males to 3,818 females; or 107 boys to 100 girls. During the
fifty-two weeks the births exceeded those of the fifty-two weeks of
1871 by 353.
Correction must be made, however, for children born of pauper
non-parishioners in the Strand Union Workhouse. Deducting the
children born in that institution the births were 7,830 during the
fifty-two weeks, or 7,852 for the year of 365 days.
Assuming the average population during the year to have been
224,000, the birth-rate was 35.1 per 1,000 persons living. In 1871
the birth-rate was 33.8 per 1,000.
4,930 deaths were registered during the fifty-two weeks, and
4,928 during the year of 365 days. From this number, 4,928, must
be deducted 104 deaths in the Strand Union Workhouse, and 64
deaths in Highgate Infirmary of non-parishioners; and there must
be added 7 deaths in Homerton Fever Hospital. The corrected
number of deaths is thus reduced to 4,767. These numbers compare
very favourably with those registered in 1871, when the actual
mortality of parishioners was 5,598.
Concisely stated, the deaths in 1872 were 831 less than in 1871;