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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

Clerkenwell 1856

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St James & St John]

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Table: DEATHS IN CLERKENWELL DURING THE THIRTEEN WEEKS, OR LAST QUARTER OF 1856.

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.
Deaths from all causes11192925221721252628302717297547
Average of 10 years28262927272627283336383332390
Small-pox..2........1............3
Measles..1..............1....13
Scarlet fever..2312122..111117
Hooping-cough..3......1....3..11110
Diarrhœa..11....................2
Typhus11312..1..1........10
Total11072424242 22345
Mean temperature55.354.35351.244.743.438.342.339.335.551.338.835.7
Average of 10 years53.751.050.25047.447.244.742.340.941.342.238.733.8

Table: Deaths in General and Special Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums, 22.

Deaths in General and Special Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums, 22.

First Quarter (total deaths) 331Principal zymotic in the first quarter55
Second „ „ 365Ditto second „65
Third „ „ 320Ditto third ,,79
Fourth „ „ 297Ditto fourth „45
1313Total244
Deaths in hospitals, &c 101
Total 1414

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UPON THE SANITARY STATE OF CLERKENWELL.
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