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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. JAMES & ST. JOHN,
CLERKENWELL.
Gentlemen,
The following Report upon the Sanitary state of Clerkenwell
for the year 1857, contains a summary of the weekly reports which
I have had the honour of laying before you, together with some
remarks upon the causes of the mortality, and suggestions for its
diminution.
On referring to the appended tables, it will be seen that 1406
deaths were registered in Clerkenwell during the year. The number
of deaths registered in 1856, was 1313; so that the mortality
of the past year has been greater than that of the preceding by 93
A certain number of deaths of the inhabitants of Clerkenwell
takes place annually in General and Special Hospitals and Lunatic
Asylums; these amounted in 1856 to 101, and in 1857 to 103.
Hence we have a total of 1509 deaths for the past, against 1414
for the preceding year.
But it must be borne in mind, that the mortality of 1856 was
considerably below the average; and below that of any of the last
ten years, excepting 1850.
The average mortality for the last ten years (1847—1856) corresponds
to 1418, uncorrected for increase of population, and
exclusive of the deaths in hospitals, &c. So that, although the
mortality is greater than in 1856, it is less than the average of the
last ten years, even when considered independently of the increase
of population.
On looking again at the tables, it is seen that the total number
of deaths from zymotic diseases of all kinds, was 348; that from
the principal zymotic diseases 301. Among these we have, 6