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This analysis shows a considerable decline in the last two years in deaths from tuber­
culosis, “bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy," and cerebral apoplexy, but the returns for
heart disease, cancer, and congenital causes of death are less favourable. In regard to the
essentially fluctuating causes of death, measles and whooping cough were productive of con ­
siderable mortality, while deaths from diarrhoea were few in comparison with other years.
The phenomenal mortality from influenza which occurred in 1918 and 1919 had practically
disappeared in 1920.
The deaths for the year are fully classified for causes, age, and sex in Table 2, on
page 85.
The deaths and deathirates for the different wards and registration sub-districts will be
found in Table 4 on page 90, and in Table 5 on page 91 are set out the death rates for 1920
of England and Wales, the County of London, the several Metropolitan Boroughs, and
certain of the large towns with populations exceeding 125,000.
1,662 deaths occurred in Public Institutions in the Borough in 1920. Taking from
these the number which were of non-parishioners (630) and adding the number of deaths of
St. Pancras parishioners in Public Institutions without the Borough (601)—both from the
Registrar-General's figures—the number of St. Pancras deaths which took place in Public
Institutions is shown to be 1,663, or 57 per cent, of the total deaths.
Infantile Mortality.
435 deaths of St. Pancras infants under one year of age took place during the year.
This is equal to a rate of 73 per thousand births.
In Table 1 on page 84 the corresponding rates for the last ten years are set out, and
from this it will be seen that the infantile mortality rate for 1920 was very much lower than that
for any previous year. The reduction was equivalent to 17 per cent. on 1919, 26 per cent. on
the five war years (1914-1918), and 28 per cent. on the five years preceding the war (1909-1913).
It is highly satisfactory to be able to record that the Borough scheme for maternity and child
welfare, to the development and administration of which so much attention has been given in
recent years, has been associated with such a saving of child life.
In Table 4 on page 90 the figures will be found for the different wards and registration
sub-districts, and in Table 5 on page 91 the infantile mortality rates in England and Wales,
the County of London, the several Metropolitan Boroughs, and certain of the large towns
with populations exceeding 125,000.
In the Tables on the next two pages are shown :—
(1) The causes of death of children under 12 months of age (1920) classified
according to age at death.
(2) The causes of death of children under 12 months of age in 1920 and in the
ten previous years. In this Table the number of births in each year is also
stated for reference.