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St. Panrras, Middlesex.
THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1885.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
In presenting to you my first annual Report as your
Medical Officer of Health, I have the honour of recording the
lowest death-rate in the annals of St. Pancras, but I have
laboured under some disadvantage in not entering into my
duties until the middle of the second quarter of the year 1885.
This Report follows on the lines of previous Reports in order to
maintain their consecutiveness, although the condition of the
statistics during the transition period has added to the difficulty
of my task.
POPULATION.
In estimating the population of St. Pancras to the middle of
the year 1885, the numbers in the annual Reports of my
predecessor, since the census of 1881, have assisted me. In the
decade, 1871 to 1881, the population increased at the rate of 0.66
per cent., and on this basis the population should have advanced
to considerably over 142,000, but with the low birth-rate and
the stagnation in building a population of 241,000 may be taken
as an accurate estimate, distributed in the following manner:—
Sub-registration Districts.
Estimated Population.
Exclusive of the
residents in certain
Public Institutions.
Regent's Park 89,400 39,880
Tottenham Court Read 27,800 26,870
Gray's Inn Road 80,500 80,850
somers Town 84,500 34,470
Camden Town 17,150 15,800
Kentish. Town 92,250 91,950
Totals 241,000 238,320
The estimates of population in the second column are used