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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
Clerkenwell 1900
Report on the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of Clerkenwell [West Division, Borough of Finsbury] for the year 1900
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ANNUAL RATE PER 1,000 PERSONS LIVING. DEATHS FROM
All Causes.
Principal
Zymotic
Diseases.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
| Diphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Enteric
Fever.
Simple
Continued
Fever.
Diarrhoea.
Phthisis.
Deaths under
1 year to
1,000 births
registered.
Registration London 18.3 2.19 0.00 0.42 0.08 0.34 0.42 0.16 0.00 0.77 1.71 158
West London 16.6 1.84 — 0.48 0.07 0.24 0.22 0.13 0.00 0.70 1.48 158
North 16.7 1.97 0.00 0.36 0.07 0.30 0.41 0.17 0.00 0.66 1.55 145
Central 22.3 2.15 — 0.47 0.11 0.24 0.52 0.13 — 0.68 2.82 158
East 21.9 2.89 — 0.57 0.10 0.44 0.57 0.18 0.00 1.03 2.02 175
South 18.0 2.20 0.00 0.36 0.08 0.37 0.46 0.16 0.00 0.77 1.63 158
Holborn 26.5 2.37 — 0.72 0.14 0.17 0.38 0.14 — 0.82 2.85 240
St. Pancras 18.9 2.35 — 0.51 0.04 0.29 0.43 0.26 0.00 0.82 1.93 160
Islington 16.3 1.90 0.00 0.46 0.07 0.30 0.42 0.14 0.00 0.51 1.59 145
St. Luke 26.8 3.25 — 0.74 0.05 0.32 0.86 0.15 — 1.13 3.16 138
Clerkenwell 21.5 2.71 — 0.59 0.15 0.27 0.79 0.09 — 0.82 2.57 167
Hampstead 11.3 1.18 — 0.26 0.05 0.38 0.11 0.11 — 0.27 0.85 100
In this table 0 00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no deaths occurred the space is left blank.