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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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GENERAL REMARKS RESPECTING MORTALITY
STATISTICS.
As we have already remarked, the death rate for 1900 (21.1) is
lower than that of 1899 (22.3) and compares more favourably with
the returns of other Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities. It should
however be remembered, that the London death-rates generally
are lower than in some previous years. Notwithstanding a somewhat
improved state of affairs, the fact remains that we are
considerably above the average death-rate for London as a whole,
namely 18.3 per 1000. Out of the 43 sanitary areas which existed
previously to the formation of the Metropolitan Borough Councils
in November, there were only 13 districts having a higher death-rate
than that of Clerkenwell; and it should be borne in mind that the
Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury is mainly composed of two
districts, Clerkenwell and St. Luke, which have respectively the 14th
and the 2nd highest death-rates for 1900, in London.
The general position of Clerkenwell in comparison with London is set forth in the following table:—
| Clerkenwell. | London. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year. | Births. | Deaths from all causes. | Zymotic Deaths. | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births. | Births. | Deaths from all causes. | Zymotic Deaths. | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births. |
| 4.35 | 22.4 | |||||||
*These Death Rates have been "corrected" for sex and age distribution
in the same way as the returns 1891-95 were "corrected," in order that
all the figures in this table may be comparable.