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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

Finsbury 1902

Report on the public health of 1902

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Table: As regards their distribution, all the deaths belonging to Finsbury may be summarized briefly as follows:—

As regards their distribution, all the deaths belonging to Finsbury may be summarized briefly as follows:—

Intra-Purochial—
North Clerkenwell489}= 1376
South Clerkenwell357
Finsbury (St. Luke)507
St. Sepulchre23
Extra-Parochial—
1. General Hospitals214}= 907
2. Special Hospitals56
3. Fever Hospitals83
4. Poor Law Institutions502
5. Asylums34
6. Elsewhere (unclassifiable)18
Total2,283

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These figures are instructive as indicating in what portions of the
Borough the death rate is highest. The death rate of the Borough
is, as we have seen, 22•7. The death rates of the sub-registration
districts, after distribution of the extra-parochial deaths, are as
follows:—
North Clerkenwell 22•5
South Clerkenwell 20•9
Finsbury (St. Luke) 24•4
St. Sepulchre 20•8
As regards distribution according to age, the following table of
total deaths (intra-parochial and extra-parochial) at subjoined ages
gives the comparative returns from 1897 to 1902. It should be
understood that for the years 1897-1900, the figures only include
Clerkenwell and St. Luke:—