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STPAN 31
St. Paneuas, Middlesex.
NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1874.
TO THE VESTRYMEN OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
The Census of 1871 showed a population of 221,594 in
St. Pancras; and. allowing for the usual rato of increase there would
bo a population of about 229,000 living in the parish in the middle
of the year 1874.
In the 52 weeks ending January 2, 1875, 5,029 deaths were
registered in St. Pancras. The number of births registered during
the year of 52 weeks was 8,010. The increment of births over
deaths was hence 2,981.
Of the 5,029 deaths, 1,013 occurred in public institutions. After
making the necessary corrections for deaths of non-parishioners in
public institutions, and of St. Pancras parishioners in institutions
outside the parish, the corrected number of deaths in 1874 is 4,982.
The annual rate of mortality was 21.75, a lower rate than any
during the last 10 years, except that of 1872. The average death
rate of the preceding 10 years was 23.78 per 1,000; and that of the
Metropolis, in 1874, was 22.5, or 0.75 per 1,000 above the local rate
in St. Pancras.
In the annexed tables the details of the mortality of the parish
are set out, and some instructive comparisons made.
It will be observed that the deaths from Zymotic diseases were
almost identical in proportion to the respective populations in the
Metropolis and in St. Pancras, the parish having suffered severely
from Hooping Cough and Scarlet Fever.
Notwithstanding this, the deaths from the seven principal Zymotic
diseases— viz.: Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphthera,
Hooping Cough, Fever and Diarrhcea formed only two-thirds of the
numbers registered on the average, and were lower than in any of the
preceding 10 years.
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