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 and St. John]
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During each year, a certain number of the inhabitants of the
parish die in General and Special Hospitals, and in Lunatic
Asylums, situated in other parishes. The estimated number of
these for the year is 150.
The number of births being 2274, and the deaths 1417, the
excess, or the natural increase of population, amounted to 857.
In the preceding year, this amounted to 942.
The number of deaths which arose from all the zymotic
diseases in 1871 was 302; that for the preceding year being
354 ; thus there was a diminution of 52.
The number of deaths from the principal zymotic diseases in
1871 was 279; being a diminution of 41 from the number for the
last year.
The number and causes of deaths from the principal zymotic diseases during the last 10 years are exhibited in the following table:—
Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Typhus In Hospital. | Totals. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1862 | 1 | 76 | 133 | 53 | 42 | 70+9 | 375 |
1863 | 26 | 44 | 136 | 66 | 52 | 42+8 | 376 |
1864 | 7 | 73 | 94 | 71 | 87 | 46+9 | 378 |
1865 | 12 | 27 | 57 | 88 | 84 | 48+5 | 316 |
1866 | 6 | 42 | 59 | 95 | 93 | 47+4 | 342 |
1867 | 20 | 44 | 49 | 35 | 71 | 50 | 269 |
1868 | 4 | 58 | 106 | 69 | 112 | 45 | 394 |
1869 | 0 | 28 | 116 | 81 | 74 | 44 | 343 |
1870 | 6 | 63 | 122 | 19 | 70 | 40 | 320 |
1871 | 60 | 23 | 33 | 62 | 68 | 33 | 279 |