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The year 1884 consists of 53 weeks, during which period
6,264 persons died in St. Pancras, giving a death rate of 21.6
per 1,00C were the year of ordinary length. When the number of
deaths is corrected by the exclusion of the deaths of those
persons in public institutions in the Parish who were not
usually resident in St. Pancras, and by the inclusion of the
deaths of St, Pancras parishioners in public institutions situated
beyond the limits of the Parish, the corrected number of deaths
amounts to 4,795, and when further correction is made in
view of the fact that the year under consideration contains
fifty-three weeks, the death rate amounts to 19.6 per 1000.
The number of children under one year of age who died during
1884 was 1,239, but the corrected number was 1,224, or in the
proportion of 154.8 of each 1,000 registered births, and 255.2
per 1,000 of the corrected total deaths during the year. In
London the proportion of deaths under one year of age was 257.3
per 1,000 deaths at all ages, or 2.1 above that of St. Pancras.
During the previous ten years in St. Pancras the average
proportion per 1,000 total deaths has been 243.0, or 12.2 below
that of 1884.
The corrected number of deaths registered under five years of
age, amounted during 1884 to 1,952, or 180 more than during
the previous year. These are in the proportion of 407.0 per
1,000 of total deaths, or 28,2 above that of 1883. The average
proportion of deaths at this age during the last ten years was
399 6 in St. Pancras, and during 1884 in the whole of London
it was 433,8 per 1,000.
There were 1,966 deaths of St. Pancras parishioners between
the ages of five and sixty-five, and 877 deaths above sixty-five
years ; these are fewer than during 1883.
In public institutions within the Parish 1,482 deaths took
place during 1884, being 125 more than during the previous
year, and 1,066 St. Pancras parishioners died in public institutions
in the Parish, and in other parts of the Metropolis, being
222,3 per 1,000 of the total deaths, and 6,2 less than last year.
The number of births registered during the year was 7,905,
giving a birth rate of 32,5 per 1000 of inhabitants. This is 0,3
more than in the year, 1883.
At the end of this Report will be found a series of tables,
recommended by the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and
shewing in more detail the death rates from various diseases.
DEATHS FROM VARIOUS DISEASES.
PULMONARY DISEASES.
The corrected number of persons who died from Pulmonary
Diseases, other than Phthisis, viz.Bronchitis, Pneumonia,