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Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1925.
For the purpose of this Report, the year consists of the 52 weeks ended 2nd January, 1926.
Section 1.—VITAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC AND GENERAL CONDITIONS.
POPULATION AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough at the Census of 1921 was 211,366. Tiie total
population of St. Pancras for the year 1925, as estimated by the Registrar-General, was
216,300, the civilian population being estimated at 215,900. The latter estimate (civilian
population) has been used in calculating the death-rates in this report, and the former (total
population) in calculating the marriage and birth-rates.
The civilian population of the Borough shows an estimated increase during the year of
1,600. The natural increase, that is, the excess of births over deaths, was 1,135, the
remainder, 465, represents the estimated increase flue to new residents coming into the
Borough.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated during the year was 1,901. This is equal to a rate
of 8.8 per 1,000 of total population.
The average yearly number of marriages during the preceding five years was 2,039,
equal to a rate of 9.4 per 1,000 of total population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year belonging to St. Pancras was 3,880,
equal to an annual birth-rate of 17.9 per 1,000 of population. With two exceptions, and
these were the two years at the termination of the war, this is the lowest birth-rate hitherto
recorded in the Borough. The average yearlv number of births during the preceding five
years was 4,743 equal to a rate of 21.7 per 1,000 of total population. The total number of
births actually registered as having taken place in the Borough during the past year was
4,111. This figure has to be corrected by deducting the births of non-residents, which
occurred chiefly in various public institutions in the Borough, these numbered 846, and adding
the births belonging to St. Pancras which occurred outside the Borough, these numbered 615.
The corrected figure is therefore as stated above, 3,880.
The corresponding figures for previous years will be seen in Table 1, on page 104.
The chart opposite this page shows, in graphic form, the variations which have
occurred in the birth-rate during the last twenty years.
The following table gives the number of births and the birth-rate in each ward of the
the Borough for the past year. For comparison the figures for the previous year are also
given:—