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MEDICAL OFFICERS
REPORT
1859.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkemvell.
Gentlemen-,
In the present, which is my fourth Annual Report, I shall
do myself the honor of submitting to you a condensed account of tho
Reports which I laid before you at your periodical Meetings during the
year 1859, with some remarks upon the General Sanitary condition of
the District, the improvements effected during the year, and those still
required.
The number of deaths which took place during the year was
1374, the average of the last 10 years being 1408; so that the deaths
were 34 less than the average.
In 1856, the number of deaths was 1313; in 1857, 1406;
in 1858, 1477; so that the deaths in 1859, were fewer by 103 than in
1858.
During each year, a certain number of the parishioners die in
General and Special Hospitals, and Lunatic Asylums. The estimated
number of these for Clerkenwell amounts to 98; thus producing a total
of 1472.
The births in the year were 2175; being 45 less than 1858,
when they were 2220. Hence the natural increase of the population
was 801.
The total number of deaths arising from Zymotic diseases, according
to the old arrangement, was 331; that for 1858, being 336; and for
1857, 348.
The deaths from the principal Zymotic diseases were 301;
against 285 in 1858; and 295 in 1857. The Quarters of the year in
which these deaths occurred are shown in the subjoined table.