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STPAN 34
St. Pancras, Middlesex.
TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1877.
TO THE VESTRYMEN OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
During the year 1877 (52 weeks), 8,126 births were
registered in St. Pancras, and 5,101 deaths. After making
the proper allowances for the deaths of non-parishioners in
public institutions situated in this Parish, and for deaths of
parishioners in hospitals outside St. Pancras, the
corrected number of deaths is 4,927. I estimate the population
in the middle of the year 1877 as 236,000. This
calculation is based on the assumption that the increase of the
decade 18G1-71, has been maintained since 1871. Probably,
however, that rate of increase has not been sustained, and the
above estimate of population is doubtless rather too high.
The births in 1877 were fewer by 191 than in 1876.
The deaths were also fewer by 92 than in the year 1876.
The annual rate of mortality in 1877 was 20.88 per 1000
persons living; and that of the preceding ten years, 1867—
1876, was 22.92. The death-rate of 1877 was hence
2.04 per 1000 below the average of the preceding 10 years;
and was 0.62 per 1000 below that of 1876.
The accompanying tables, drawn up in the manner recommended
by the Society of Medical Officers of Health, show
clearly the mode in which the mortality from various diseases,
and classes of disease, has affected the population of St.
Pancras, and affords useful information respecting the distribution
of disease in St. Pancras and in the Metropolis
generally.