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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
REPORT,
1861.
With a Table of causes of Deaths.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell:
Gentlemen,
In this, which is my Sixth Annual Report upon the Sanitary
condition of the District, I do myself the honor of laying before you the
numerical details of the deaths which have occurred during the past
year, with comments upon the causes and influences to which they have
been related.
The number of deaths which occurred from all causes in the
district during the year 1861, was 1494 ; the average of the last ten
years being 1427 ; hence the deaths were 67 above the average.
In 1857, the total number of deaths was 1406 ; in 1858, 1477 ;
in 1859, 1S74; and in 1860, 1383; so that in 1861, the deaths were
111 more than in 1860.
Every year, a certain number of the inhabitants of the district
die in General and Special Hospital, and in Lunatic Asylums. The
number of these estimated for 1861, amounts to 102; thus producing a
total of 1596.
The births which took place in the year were 2295; the natural
increase of the population thus amounting to 801.
In 1860, the births were 2279, hence 16 fewer than in the past
year.
The number of deaths from Zymotic diseases was 381 ; that for
1860, being 266 ; for 1859, 329; for 1858, 327; and for 1557, 340. „