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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 1958
[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 General1 s mid-1958 estimate) 130,800
Number of persons per acre (estimated average) 48
Rateable value (at April 1958) £ 3,464,582
Product of a penny rate about £ 13,800
General rate in the £ for the year 17s. 4d
Summary of Vital Statistics
Net registered live births 2,280
Birth-rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 17.43
Deaths, all ages ls426
Death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) 10-90
Infantile deaths 54
Infantile death rate (per 1,000 live births) 23.68
Tuberculosis deaths 22
Tuberculosis death rate (per 1,000 of estimated population) .17
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