Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St James & St John]
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DEATHS IN CLERKENWELL DURING THE THIRTEEN WEEKS, OR LAST QUARTER OF 1856.
October 4th. | October 11th. | October 18th. | October 25th. | Nov. 1st. | Nov. 8th. | Nov. 15th. | Nov. 22nd. | Nov. 29th. | Dec. 6th. | Dec. 13th. | Dec. 20th. | Dec. 27th. | Total. | Births. | |
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Deaths from all causes | 11 | 19 | 29 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 27 | 17 | 297 | 547 |
Average of 10 years | 28 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 33 | 36 | 38 | 33 | 32 | 390 | |
Small-pox | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |
Measles | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | |
Scarlet fever | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
Hooping-cough | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
Diarrhœa | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
Typhus | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10 | |
Total | 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 2 | 2 | 3 | 45 | ||
Mean temperature | 55.3 | 54.3 | 53 | 51.2 | 44.7 | 43.4 | 38.3 | 42.3 | 39.3 | 35.5 | 51.3 | 38.8 | 35.7 | ||
Average of 10 years | 53.7 | 51.0 | 50.2 | 50 | 47.4 | 47.2 | 44.7 | 42.3 | 40.9 | 41.3 | 42.2 | 38.7 | 33.8 |
Deaths in General and Special Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums, 22.
First Quarter (total deaths) 331 | Principal zymotic in the first quarter | 55 |
Second „ „ 365 | Ditto second „ | 65 |
Third „ „ 320 | Ditto third ,, | 79 |
Fourth „ „ 297 | Ditto fourth „ | 45 |
1313 | Total | 244 |
Deaths in hospitals, &c 101 | ||
Total 1414 |
UPON THE SANITARY STATE OF CLERKENWELL.
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