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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
R E P O R T
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1920.
For the purpose of this Report, the year 1920 is taken to be the 53 weeks ended 1st
January, 1921. The annual rates are corrected so as to make them comparable with
those for other (fifty-two weeks) years.
Section I.—VITAL STATISTICS. *
POPULATION.
The total population of St. Pancras for 1920, as estimated by the Registrar-General,
was 228,980, the civilian population being estimated at 228,178. The latter (civilian)
population has been used in estimating death-rates, and the former (total) in estimating
marriage and birth-rates.
The population is largely industrial and includes a considerable element of the poor.
It was found in the 1911 census that the 22,246 " inhabited houses " were occupied by 52,994
" families or separate occupiers"; that there were 11,452 one-room tenements, 15,568 tworoom
tenements, and 10,421 three-room tenements; and that a population of 51,214, or 25:5
per cent. of the total population in "private families" were living in 8.875 tenements with
more than two occupants per room.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in 1920 was 2,407 (including marriages of soldiers
and sailors). This is equal to a rate of 10.5 per 1,000 total population.
BIRTHS.
The net number of births for St. Pancras registered in 1920 was 5,934, making
an annual birth-rate of 25.4 per 1,000 total population.
The number of births registered as having taken place in the Borough was 6,191, and
the net figure is obtained by deducting 257, which, according to information supplied by
the Registrar-General, is the excess of births .to non-parishioners occurring within the
Borough over births to parishioners occurring outside the Borough.
The corresponding figures for previous years and for the different wards and regis-
tration sub-districts in the Borough will be found in Tables 1 and 4 on pages 84 and 90.
As will be seen by reference to table 1 the birth-rate for 1920 was much greater
than in any recent year. Indeed the number of births and vhe rate were greater than in any
* In the Annnal Report for 1919 particulars were included in regard to certain matters connected with the natural
and social condition of the Borough, which are omitted from the present Report.