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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
REPORT
1860.
With a Table of causes of Deaths.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I now do myself the honor of laying before you my Fifth
Annual Report, upon the Sanitary condition of the District, consisting
mainly of a summary of the Reports submitted periodically to your
ordinary Meetings.
The number of deaths which occurred from all causes during
the year was 1383; the average of the last 10 years being 1396 ; so
that the deaths were 13 fewer than the average.
In 1857, the deaths were 1406; in 1858, 1477; and in 1859,
1374; so that in 1860, the deaths were 9 more than in 1859.
Every year, a certain number of the Inhabitants of the District
die in General and Special Hospitals, and Lunatic Asylums.
The estimated number of these for the past year, amounts to 93, thus
producing a total of 1476.
The births which took place during the year were 2279; the
natural increase of the population thus amounting to 896.
In 1859, the births were 2175, and the increase arising from
the excess was 801 ; hence 95 less than in the past year.
The total number of deaths from Zymotic diseases, according
to the old arrangement, was 277; that for 1859, being 331; for
1858, 336; and for 1857, 348.