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This analysis shows that the decline noticed in 1920 in deaths from tuberculosis and
from "bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy," has persisted in 1921. The number of deaths
from heart disease and from cancer, on the other hand, fail to show that tendency to decline
exhibited by the mortality statistics as a whole. The deaths from diphtheria and from
diarrhoea and enteritis were more numerous than usual, while the mortality from the other
zymotic diseases was low.
The deaths for the year are fully classified for causes, age and sex in Table II, on page 87.
The deaths and death-rates for the different wards and registration sub-districts will
be found in Table 4, on page 92, and in Table 5, on page 93, are set out the death-rates for 1921
of England and Wales, the County of London, the several metropolitan boroughs, and certain
of the large towns with populations exceeding 125,000.
1,613 deaths occurred in Public Institutions in the borough in 1921. Taking from these
the number which were of non-parishioners (582) and adding the number of deaths of St. Pancras
parishioners in Public Institutions without the borough (593)—both from the RegistrarGeneral's
figures—the number of St. Pancras deaths which took place in Public Institutions
is shown to be 1,624, or 58 per cent. of the total deaths.
Infantile Mortality.
360 deaths of St. Pancras infants under one year of age took place during the year.
This is equal to a rate of 76 per thousand births.
In Table 1, on page 86, the corresponding rates for the past 11 years are set out. The rate
for 1921 (76) is slightly greater than that for 1920 (73), which was unprecedentedly low. The
increase is due to the increased prevalence of diarrhoea and enteritis, the result of the great
drought of 1921. If the mortality from diarrhoea and enteritis amongst children under one
year had been in 1921 at the same rate as 1920, the infantile death-rate for 1921 would have
been considerably lower than in 1920. Reference to the abnormal summer season and the
consequent mortality from diarrhoea is made on page 28 of this report.
In Table 4, on page 92, the figures will be found for the different wards and registration
sub-districts, and in Table 5, on page 93, 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 (1921), classified according
to age at death.
(2) The causes of death of children under 12 months of age in 1921 and in the ten
previous years. In this Table the number of births in each year is also stated
for reference.