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STPAN 30
St. Pancras, Middlesex.
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1873.
TO THE VESTRYMEN OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
The Census of 1871 gave to St. Pancras parish a population
of 221,465. The average annual increase of population
between 1861 and 1871 was 1.1 per cent. Assuming that the same
increase of population has been maintained, the population of St.
Pancras in the middle of the year 1873 would be 227,000; and this
is taken as the population of the parish in 1873, and forms the basis
of the calculations in the following Report.
In the 53 weeks ending on January 3rd, 1874, 8,095 births were
registered in the parish.
The number of registered deaths during the 53 weeks ending
January 3rd, 1874, was.5,276; and during the year of 365 days, was
5,195. Deducting 79 deaths in the Strand Union Workhouse, and
56 deaths of non-parishioners in the Highgate Infirmary; adding
8 deaths of parishioners in the London Fever Hospital, and in the
Homerton Fever Hospital, the actual mortality of parishioners becomes
5,068 in the year of 365 days. The natural increase of population
was hence 2,896.
The natural increase in 1867 was 2,724
,, „ 1868 „ 2,915
„ „ 1869 „ 2,594
„ ,,1870 „ 2,301
„ ,,1871 „ 1,912
„ ,, 1872 „ 3,086
„ „ 1873 „ 2,896
The birth-rate was 35.09 per 1,000 persons living.
The deaths exceeded by 302 those of the preceding year. The
annual rate of mortality was 22.32 per 1,000 persons living.
In 1864 the death-rate was 26.03
„ 1865 „ „ 24.80
,, 1866 „ „ 24.45
„ 1867 „ „ 24.25
„ 1868 „ „ 22.50
„ 1869 „ „ 22.81
„ 1870 „ „ 24.15
„ 1871 „ „ 25.19
„ 1872 „ „ 21.28
„ 1873 „ „ 22.32
The average annual rate of mortality of the ten years 1864-73 was
23.78 per 1,000 persons living.