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The birth-rate was 34.6 per 1000 of the population. This
was •2 in excess of the rate of the preceding year, but .1
below the average birth-rate of the previous ten years and 2.2
below the birth-rate of the whole of London for 1878.
The death-rate was 21.71 per 1000 of the population, or .83
above the death-rate of the previous year, and .86 below the
death-rate of the preceding ten years, and is also 1.29 below
the death-rate of the whole of London for 1878.
The excess of births over deaths during 1878 has been
slightly more marked in St. Pancras than in the whole of
London, but a comparison of the averages of the last five
years shows that during this period this excess has been
slightly more marked in London as a whole than in Saint
Pancras.
MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
1844 children under one year of age died in St. Pancras,
or 26.5 per cent. of the total deaths. In London 25.3 per
cent. of the total deaths were among infants of this age.
2212 children under 5 years of age died in St. Pancras.
This is 45.6 per cent of the total deaths, and is in excess of
the proportion which deaths of children of this period of life
bear to total deaths in London, where 43.5 per cent of the total
deaths are among children under five years of age.
1968 persons between 5 and 65 years, and 888 over 65
years of age died in St. Pancras in 1878.
These figures are not comparable with those of previous
years, from the fact that they include not only those who
died in private houses in the Parish, but also those of our
parishioners who died in Public Institutions both in the Parish
and other parts of the Metropolis.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
SMALL POX.
94 persons died of Small Pox in 1878. The deaths from
Small Pox of St. Pancras parishioners were in the proportion
of 18.5 of every 1000 deaths. In London as a whole,
during the same year, the deaths were in the proportion of
16.9 of every 1000 deaths, and during this year, therefore,
Small Pox was a proportionately larger element in our death
rate than in the Metropolis as a whole.
Of the 94 of our parishioners who died in 1878, 64 died in
hospitals not situated in the Parish.