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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
REPORT.
1862.
With a Table of causes of Deatli.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. Joiin, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I beg respectfully"to lav before you my Seventh Annual Report
upon the causes of death in the district, and its sanitary condition
during the past year; together with a summary of the sanitary improvements
during the same period.
The number of deaths which occurred from all causes in the
district during the year 1862, was 1572; the average of the last ten
years being 1446 ; hence the deaths were 126 more than the average.
During the last 6 years, the total numbers of deaths in the district
have been as follows : in 1857 1406; in 1858, 1477 J in 1859,
1374; in 1860, 1383; in 1861, 1494 ; and in 1862, 1572.
in each year, a certain number of deaths of the Inhabitants takes
place in General and Special Hospitals, and in Lunatic Asylums. The
estimated number of these for 1862, amounts to 112.
The births which took place in the year were 2287 ; the natural
increase of the population thus amounting to 715. In the preceding
year, the number of births was 2295, and the natural increase 801.
The number of deaths from Zymotic* diseases in 1862, was 422 ;
that for the preceding 5 years, beginning with 1857, being respectively
340, 327, 329, 266, and 381.
* This term, which was first proposed by Dr. Farr, of the Register General's
Office, is now generally used for brevity, to signify Infectious, Epidemic, and Endemic
diseases.