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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1864.
With Table of Causes of Deaths, &c.
To the Vestry of Saint James and, Saint John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I do myself the honor of laying before you my Ninth. Annual
Report upon the sanitary state of the district for the past year, 1864,
with a statement of the causes of deaths, and a review of the principal
points referred to in the Reports presented to you at your ordinary
meetings.
The number of deaths which occurred from all causes in the
district during the year 1864, was 1735; the average of the last ten years
being 1455.
During the last 8 years, the total numbers ot deaths have been as
follows: in 1857, 1406; in 1858, 1477; in 1859, 1374; in 1860, 1383;
in 1861, 1494; in 1862, 1572; in 1863, 1509; in 1864, 1735.
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 1864, amounts to 111.
The births which took place during the year were 2224; the
natural increase of the population thus being 489; in the preceding
year the births were 2449.
The number of deaths from Zymotic* diseases in 1864, was 435;
that for the preceding 7 years having been respectively 340, 327, 329,
266, 381, 422, and 411.
The number of deaths which occurred from the principal Zymotic
diseases was 378; the kinds of disease, as also the number occuring
during the preceding 6 years being shown in the subjoined table.
*This term, which wag first proposed by Dr. Farr, of the Registrar General's
Office, is now generally employed for brevity to signify Infectious, Epidemic, and
Endemic diseases.