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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 1
General Information and
Statistical Summary
General
The borough of St. Pancras is about 4 miles long, extending from near
Oxford Street in the south to Highgate in the north, and averages about a mile
in width, from the Outer Circle of Regent's Park in the west to York Way in the
east.
Summary of Statistics
Area of the borough 2,694 acres
Area of various public open spaces 553 acres
Population (1951 Census) 138,377
Population (Registrar General's mid-1955 estimate) 134,500
Number of persons per acre (estimated average) 50
Rateable value £2,177,297
Product of a penny rate about £8,675
General rate in the £ for the year 21s.
Summary of Vital Statistics
Net registered live births 2,176
Birth-rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 16.18
Deaths, all ages 1,441
Death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 10.71
Infantile deaths 50
Infantile death rate (per 1,000 live births) 22.98
Tuberculosis deaths 34
Tuberculosis death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population .25
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