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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1932.
Fur the purpose of this Report, the year consists of the 52 weeks ended 31s/ December, 1932.
Section l.-STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
POPULATION AND GENERAL STATISTICS.
The total population of the Borough at the Census of 1931 was 198,133.
The Census figure of 198,133 represents a decrease of 6.3 per cent. since the 1921
Census, at which date the population of the Borough was 211,366. The above-mentioned
decrease is due to the following factors: the excess of births over deaths would have resulted
in an increase of population of 4*5 per cent., but the decrease due to removals from the
Borough caused a loss of 10'8 per cent., the difference, 6'3 per cent., represents the net
decrease in the population.
The mid-year (1932) population of the Borough is estimated by the Registrar-General
to be 194,000. In previous years, the estimated population has been divided into civil and
total. For this year the estimated total population only is given, as deaths of persons serving
in H.M. Forces are now allocated to their area of residence in the same manner as civilian
deaths, and the above estimate of total resident population (194,000) has been used for the
calculation of both birth and death rates.
In a special appendix to this report (pages 111 to 118) the statistical details are given
with reference to St. Pancras which were ascertained at the Census taken on April 26th-27tli,
1931.
It was found that on the date of the Census the number of private families or separate
occupiers was 56,929, comprising a population of 178,341 (90 per cent. of the total population).
These were housed in 158,489 rooms, which represents an average number of persons per room
of 1*13. Of the remainder of the population, 6'8 per cent, were living in hotels, boardinghouses,
etc., and 3'2 per cent, in various institutions.
The total number of structurally separate dwellings, occupied and vacant, was 25,670.
These contained 163,898 rooms, of which 158,489 were occupied and 5,409 were vacant.