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13
Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1930.
For the purpose of this Report, the year consists of the 53 weeks ended 3rd January, 1931.
The annual rates are corrected in order to make them comparable with those for other
(,fifty-two weeks) years.
Section 1.-STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
POPULATION AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough at the Census of 1921 was 211,366.
According to the annual estimates of the Registrar-General, a steady increase of
population occurred from the Census year 1921 up to and including the year 1926, when the
estimated population of the Borough was 216,800.
Since then, year by year, a somewhat rapid decrease is estimated to have taken place,
and for the year 1929 the Registrar-General has estimated the total population of the Borough
to be 204,400, and the civilian population 203,900.
A certain amount of decrease has doubtless occurred during the past two or three years,
owing to the clearance of a number of slum areas and the re-housing of people outside the
Metropolis, but it is doubtful if the population of the Borough has decreased to the extent
estimated by the Registrar-General.
As the Census is being taken this year (1931), although the figures will not be
available for some time, the Registrar-General has not provided the usual estimate of the
population, and it has been suggested by the Ministry of Health that the figures for the year
1929 should be used for the year 1930.
It is probable that little alteration has occurred during this period, and therefore the
estimated total population, 204,400, has been taken for the purpose of calculating the marriage
and birth rates, and the estimated civilian population, 203,900, for calculating the death rate
for the year 1930.