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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
REPORT.
1803.
With Table of Causes of Deaths, &c.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clericenwell.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you my Eighth Annual Report upon the
sanitary state of the district, for the past year, viz., 1863.
The number of deaths which occurred from all causes in the
district during the past year 1863, was 1509 ; the annual average
of the last ten years being 1455 ; hence the deaths were 54 more
than the average.
During the last 7 years, the total numbers of deaths in the
district have been respectively as follows : in 1857, 1406 ; in 1858,
1477 ; in 1859,1374 ; in 1860,1383 ; in 1861,1494 ; in 1862,1572 ;
and in 1863, 1509.
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 1863, amounts to
101.
The births which took place in the year were 2449; the
natural increase of the population thus being 940.
The number of deaths from Zymotic* diseases in 1863, was
411 ; that for the preceding 6 years being respectively 340, 327,
329, 266, 381, and 422.
The number of deaths occurring from the principal Zymotic
diseases was 376; the kind of diseases, as also the number occurring
during the preceding 5 years, are shewn in a subsequent table.
* This term, which was first proposed by Dr. Farr, of the Registrar General's
Office, is now generally employed for brevity to signify Infectious, Epidemic, and
Endemic diseases.