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during this period, it is necessary to deduct the deaths of nonparishioners
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
of deaths then amounts to 5,011.
The birth-rate was 34.2 per 1,000 of the population. This
is exactly the same birth-rate as that of last year, and is .3
below the average of the preceding ten years. The birthrate
of London during 1880 was 36.2, and was therefore 2.0
per 1,000 above that of St. Pancras.
So far, then, as births are concerned, St. Pancras has not
kept pace with the rest of the metropolis.
The death-rate was 21.32 per 1,000 of the population, and
1.06 below the average of the preceding ten years, while it
was also .98 below the death-rate of the whole of London.
This is, with the exception of that of 1877, the lowest death-rate
since the year 1872.
The excess of births over deaths, which was stated in the
last report to be less marked in St. Pancras than in the
whole of London, is still further reduced this year, being
now less by 24 per 1,000 of the deaths than in the whole of
London. St. Pancras, with the present death-rate and with
the present population, gains every year about 120 persons
less than she would do if she were keeping pace with the
rest of the metropolis in this respect.
MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
1,286 children under one year of age died in St. Pancras
in 1880, or 25.6 per cent. of the total deaths. This is 1.9 per
cent. more than in the preceding year, and is .1 per cent. less
than in the whole of London.
2,166 children under five years of age died in St. Pancras
in 1880. This is 43.2 per cent. of the total deaths, and is
2.8 above the per centage of the previous year and 2.4 above
the average of the preceding six years. It is, however, 1.0
per cent. of the total deaths less than in the whole of London
during the year 1880.
In St. Pancras, then, the deaths at these two ages (under
one and under five years) have a smaller share of the total
deaths than in the metropolis as a whole.