Meanings
- An area of the borough of Camden, in central London, in which St Pancras railway station is situated (OS grid ref TQ3082).
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The sanitary authorities of St. Pancras have lost no time in dealing with the outbreak of typhoid fever in Camden Town; a largely augmented staff of officers have been engaged for some days in making a partial house-to-house inspection. Their inquiries have elicited the fact that the epidemic has been more widely spread than was at first imagined, and that the published statements respecting it, instead of being exaggerated, have been considerably below the mark.
1883 September 22, “The week. Topics of the day”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, page 350 - A former borough, the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras in the County of London, which became part of the London borough of Camden in Greater London in 1965.
Four summonses were brought recently on behalf of St. Pancras Borough Council against the British Transport Commission in respect of the emission of smoke by locomotives standing at Camden Motive Power Depot. (The summonses were dismissed)
1955 December, “Emission of Smoke by Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 812
Origin
After Saint Pancras of Rome, whose relics were supposedly housed at the church in this location.
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