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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1915.
Part I-GENERAL STATISTICS.
For the purposes of this Report the year 1915 consists of the 52 weeks
ended 1st January, 1916.
POPULATION.
The estimated total population of St. Pancras at the middle of 1915
including soldiers and sailors recruited from the borough is 218,387, which
differs from the lower estimate arrived at by the Registrar-General's method.
This figure, which is the census population of 1911 is adopted bccause the
returns of the Rating Department as to occupied houses do not indicate a
decrease in the population since the census year.
The removal from the borough of many enlisted men of military age has,
however, made it inadvisable to use this estimate in calculating death-rates of
the civil population, and the civil population of the borough as given in the
National Register is adopted for this purpose. This figure is supplied by the
Registrar-General, and is 200,322. The Registration was carried out on loth
August, 1915, which is only six weeks removed from the middle of the year,
and the figure, unlike the census population, included habitual residents only,
wherever they happened to be on that date. In the earlier part of the year
there were of course fewer men enlisted than on 15th August, and in the
later part more, and the figure 200,322 is taken as the mean civil population
for the year.
No figures from the National Register are to hand for the population of the
different wards, and in calculating ward rates the census figures have been
used.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in St. Pancras during 1915 was 2951
(including marriages of soldiers and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 13.5
per 1,000 total population.