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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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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 555 acres
At census 1951:-
Population (66,181 males: 72,196 females) 138,377
Number of households (families) 48,865
Structurally separate dwellings 29,146
Population (Registrar General's mid-1957 estimate) 132,000
Number of persons per acre (estimated average) 49
Rateable value £3,388,177
Product of a penny rate about £13,260
General rate in the £ for the year 17s. 4d
Summary of Vital Statistics
Net registered live births 2,227
Birth-rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 16.87
Deaths, all ages 1,440
Death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 10.91
Infantile deaths 47
Infantile death rate (per 1,000 live births) 21.10
Tuberculosis deaths 18
Tuberculosis death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) .14
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