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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 1859

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

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Table: The Quarters of the year in which these deaths occurred are shown in the subjoined table.

The Quarters of the year in which these deaths occurred are shown in the subjoined table.

1857.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Typhus.Totals.
1st Quarter2953521063
2nd ,,1861641357
3rd „271610491195
4th „2171523101380
1858.65142846547295
1st Quarter1106285555
2nd „101155839
3rd11120334776
4th „33837151111115
1859.56964615531285
1st Quarter3727393988
2nd ,,2152911158
3rd ,,i1101155381
4th „5143089874
92482876831301

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It is thus seen that the total number of these deaths was 16
more than in 1858, and 6 more than in 1857. The deaths from Small
Pox, to which 1 must be added as having occurred in the Small Pox
Hospital, were just double those of the preceding year; those from
Measles, 35 fewer; those from Scarlet Fever, 18 more; those from
Hooping Cough 26 more; those from Diarrhœa 13 more; while those
from Typhus were the same. When however, the 6 deaths from the
latter disease which took place in the Fever Hospital are added to the
31 which occurred in the District, the total becomes 37, against 39
(31 + 8), the total for 1858.
Of the 82 deaths included under Scarlet Fever, 16 were
registered as arising from Diphtheria.
628 deaths occurred in infants and children under 5 years of
age; in 1858, there were 656; and in 1857, 663.
268 deaths took place at and above 60, including 52 at and
above 80.
269 deaths arose from Tubercular or Consumptive diseases.
229 deaths occurred from Pulmonary diseases.
120 deaths took place in the Workhouse.