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St. Pancras, London.
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1889.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
The labours of your Sanitary Department are increasing apace, and
have not been conducive to the early issue of a comprehensive annual report.
Some compensation for this is afforded in the fact that both the birth-rate
and death-rate are the lowest yet recorded in St. Pancras.
As in previous years, all the tables have been corrected by the inclusion
of parishioners dying without the parish, and the exclusion of non-parishioners
dying within the parish, and the tables referring to the sub-districts farther
corrected by the distribution of births and deaths, not referable to any particular
sub-district, to the various sub-districts according to population, and as many
as the tables as possible have been omitted from the text, and placed in the
Appendix at the end of the Report to facilitate reading and reference.
Subjects of interest in the Report will be formed under their respective
headings:—
Insanitary areas and Artizans Dwellings, under Dwellings.
The results of the Infectious Disease Notification Act, and the New Disinfecting
Chamber, under Disinfection.
The interesting brick-burning case, under Nuisances.
The first steps towards extension of constant water supply to the area
adjoining Primrose Hill, under water supply.
As usual, a brief meteorological record precedes the vital statistics.