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Borough. There were also reported by the Registrar-General 564 deaths of St. Pancras
parishioners who died in institutions in other parts of the County of London and institutions
connected therewith, and 37 who died in other parts of England and Wales. The net figure
on which the death-rate is based is corrected for these outward and inward transfers.
In Table 1, on page 84, will be found the corresponding figures for the past ten years.
It will be seen that the death-rate in 1920 was considerably lower than in any previous year,
the "record" made in 1919 being again surpassed. This progressive lessening of mortality
is no doubt closely associated with the gradual improvement in the social conditions of the
poor and of the working classes in general, and is an encouragement to continue the public
health policy which has been pursued in recent years by the local and central authorities.