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Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1922.
For the purpose of this Report, the year 1922 consists of the 52 weeks ended 31s< December, 1922.
Section I.—VITAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
POPULATION AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of St. Pancras at the middle of 1922
is 212,500. All rates in the present report are based on this estimate.
Area (acres), 2,694. Number of families or separate occupiers
Population (1921), 211,366. (1921), 56,653.
Number of inhabited houses (1921), 24,660. Rateable value, £1,845,518.
Sum represented by a penny rate, £7,509.
1921 Census.
In a special Appendix to this report (page 103) the chief tables of the census which was
taken on 19th-20th June, 1921, are set out in so far as they concern St. Pancras. Special attention
is directed to the tables on pages 105-107, which deal with housing conditions. It was found that
on the date of the census the 56,653 private families in the borough (comprising a population of
195,345) were housed in 24,660 dwellings, or 2.3 families per dwelling. The number of dwellings
including the 556 which were vacant on census night was 25,216, and they were made up of
16,890 undivided private houses (housing 162,261 persons), 232 structurally divided private
houses (housing 712 persons), 4,040 dwellings in blocks of flats, tenements, &c. (housing 11,714
persons), 19,732 shops (housing 22,192 persons), and 2,459 others (housing 14,484 persons).
These comprised 164,545 rooms, of which 2,651 were in dwellings vacant on Census night. Of the
occupied dwellings 9,975 were occupied by one family each, 4,685 by two families each, and
10,000 by three or more families each.
The size of the tenements in St. Pancras is indicated by the following figures : 12,811
families (22.6 per cent, of all families) were living in one-room tenements, with a population of
22,136 ; 17,584 families (31.0 per cent.) in two-room tenements, with a population of 57,720 ;
11,997 families (21.2 per cent.) in three-room tenements, with a population of 46,386; and
7,298 families (12.9 per cent.) in four-room tenements, with a population of 33,340. The number
of families living in tenements containing more than four rooms was 6,963 (12.3 per cent.) and
comprised a population of 35,763. 53.6 per cent, of all private families were living in tenements
of only one or two rooms, while only 7.7 per cent, of families were living in tenements of more
than five rooms.
In regard to density of population, 127,616 persons in private families were living at a
density of more than one person per room, 43,687 at a density of more than two persons per room,
and 10,928 at a density exceeding that of 0.3 of a room per person.
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