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If the St. Pancras and London death rates be corrected for age and sex distribution the district
will be found to compare somewhat less favourably with London as a whole. The corrected St. Pancras
death rates for 1895, 1896 and 1897, are 21.4, 19.4 and 20 respectively, the corresponding corrected
London death rates being 20.8, 19.3 and 18.9. The comparative mortality figures of St. Pancras for
the years in question (London, 1,000), are 1,029, 1,005 and 1,058.
The figures given enable comparison to be made between St. Pancras and the whole of London.
The latter is made up, however, of districts so diverse in character and having such differing rates of
mortality that it may be well to note how St. Pancras stands with regard to districts which in certain
respects are to some extent similarly circumstanced to St. Pancras itself.
If the death rates of the "north districts" of the Registrar-General be compared it will be found
that the death rate of St. Pancras is markedly in excess of the rates which obtain in Hampstead,
Islington, Stoke Newington and Hackney, but not much in excess of that of Marylebone.
Moreover, it may be noted that the death rate per 1,000 living from phthisis after distribution of deaths
in public institutions in St. Pancras in 1897 was 2.01 per 1,000 living, and considerably exceeded
the rates of the other "north districts." Just, however, as London is a complex whole, so in less
degree is St. Pancras itself, and it is desirable therefore to refer to the figures relating to the subdistricts
into which the registration district of St. Pancras is divided.