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Clerkenwell 1896

Forty-first annual report of the Vestry of the Parish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell for the year 1896-97

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104
so that the deaths are respectively 115 less than last year, and
161 less than the average. This intra-parochial mortality
calculated on a population of 66,202, amounts to 13•9 per
1,000, while the mortality of the year before was 15•6 per 1,000.
The births registered in the district during 1896, were 2,223.
Compared with 1895, they show an excess of 140, and with the
average of the past ten years, an excess of 19. This gives a
birth rate of 33•5 per 1,000, the birth rate for London as a
whole being 30•2 per 1,000.

Table: I append the table to which you have become accustomed in previous reports, giving the births and deaths which have taken place in the Parish in each of the last ten years:—

I append the table to which you have become accustomed in previous reports, giving the births and deaths which have taken place in the Parish in each of the last ten years:—

YEAR.DEATHS.BIRTHS.
18871,2162,263
18881,1682,311
18891,0332,277
18901,1842,204
18911,1712,222
18921,1252,175
18931,1832,106
18948072,180
18951,0382,083
18969232,223

Table: The deaths and births were distributed as follows:—

The deaths and births were distributed as follows:—

DISTRICT.DEATHS.BIRTHS.
St. James215505
Amwell276558
Pentonville218578
Goswell214582

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Besides the 923 deaths occurring in the Parish, 440
inhabitants of Clerkenwell died outside the district, and these
must be added before a true death rate which can be used for
purposes of comparison will be obtained.