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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 1903

Report on the public health of 1903

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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-Parochial—
North Clerkenwell4011123
South Clerkenwell284
Finsbury (St. Luke)418
St. Sepulchre20
Extra-Parochial—
1. General Hospitals192870
2. Special Hospitals73
3. Fever Hospitals32
4. Poor Law Institutions502
5. Asylums42
6. Elsewhere (unclassifiable)29
Total1,993

Table: 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, 19.8. The death rates of the sub-registration districts, after distribution of the extra-parochial deaths, are as follows:—

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, 19.8. The death rates of the sub-registration districts, after distribution of the extra-parochial deaths, are as follows:—

North Clerkenwell19.2
South Clerkenwell18.3
Finsbury (St. Luke)21.7
St. Sepulchre19.0

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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 1898 to 1903. It should be
understood that for the years 1898-1900, the figures only include
Clerkenwell and St. Luke:—