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During this year 8,226 births and 5,607 deaths were
registered in St. Pancras; but in order to ascertain the exact
number of deaths of St. Pancras parishioners during this
period, it is necessary to deduct the deaths of non-parishioners
which occurred in Public Institutions, and to add the number
of our parishioners who died in Public Institutions in other
parts of the Metropolis; the corrected number then amounts
to 5,189.
The birth-rate was 34.2 per 1000 of the population. This
was .4 below the rate of the preceding year, and the same
amount below the rate of the ten previous years, and 2.3
below the birth-rate of the whole of London for 1879.
The death-rate was 21.62 per 1000 of the population, or
.09 below the death-rate of the previous year, and .88 below
the death-rate of the ten preceding years, and is also 1.68
below the death-rate of the whole of London for 1879.
The excess of births over deaths has been less marked
than in the Metropolis as a whole, whereas in 1878 the
reverse was the case; but a comparison of the average of
the five years preceding 1879, shows that the excess of births
over deaths is slightly more marked in the Metropolis as a
whole than in Saint Pancras.
MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
1231 children under one year died in St. Pancras, in 1879
or 23.7 per cent. of the total deaths. This is 2.8 per cent
less than in the preceding year, but is .6 more than the per
centage of children who died in the whole of London during
1879.
2100 children under 5 years of age died in St. Pancras in
1879. This is 40.4 per cent of the total deaths, and is slightly
less than the proportion which deaths of children of this
period of life bear to total deaths in London, where 41.7 per
cent of the total deaths were of children under five years
of age.
2030 persons between the ages of 5 and 65 years died in
St. Pancras in 1879, and 1068 over 65 years of age.
Of the total number of deaths among children in Saint
Pancras, 92 were those of illegitimate children.