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Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras.
R E PORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1923.
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For the purpose of this Report, the year consists of the 52 weeks ended 29tli December, 1923.
Section I.—VITAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.
POPULATION AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough at the Census in 1921 was 211,366. The RegistrarGeneral's
estimate of the population at the middle of 1923 was 214,400. All the rates in
this report are calculated on the above estimate. This estimated population shows an increase
of 1,900 over that for the preceding year. The natural increase, that is the excess of births
over deaths, was 1,763; the difference represents the allowance for immigration to the Borough.
This latter figure is necessarily small, as the building of new houses proceeds with lamentable
slowness. Any marked increase in population at present merely results in accentuating the
overcrowding of persons in existing houses and tenements
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in 1923 was 1,900. This is equal to a rate of 8-9
per 1,000 of total population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births belonging to St. Pancras registered during the year was 4,348,
making an annual birth-rate of 20.3 per 1,000 of population. The total number of births
actually registered as having taken place in the Borough was 4,654. This figure has to be
corrected by adding the births of parishioners which occurred outside the Borough—these
numbered 610—and by deducting ihe births of non-residents which occurred in various
institutions, &c., in the Borough—these numbered 916. The corrected figure is therefore
4,348 as stated above.
The corresponding figures for previous years, and for the different wards and registration
sub-districts, will be found in Tables 1 and 4, on pages 86 and 92.