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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Clerkenwell 1868

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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In each year, a certain number of deaths of members of this
parish occurs in General and Special Hospitals, and in Lunatic
Asylums. The number of these estimated for 1868 is 118.
As the number of deaths in 1867 was 1497., that for 1868 was
147 more than in the preceding year.
The excess of births over the deaths, or the natural increase of
population, amounts to 834; in the preceding year this sum was 955.

Table: The numbers and kinds of the latter are exhibited as taking place during the last 12 years in the subjoined table:—

The numbers and kinds of the latter are exhibited as taking place during the last 12 years in the subjoined table:—

Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Hooping Cough.Diarrhoea.Typhus.In Fever Hospital.Totals.
185765142846547+ 9295
185856964615531+ 8285
185992482876831+ 6301
1860103950623827+ 5226
1861022951077244+ 17340
1862176133534270+ 9375
18632644136665242+ 8376
186477394718746+ 9378
1865122757888448+ 5316
186664259959347+ 4342
1867204449357150269
18684581066911245394