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If the 150 deaths calculated as the share of Hospital deaths
occurring in persons removed from this parish be added, the
mortality becomes 23.0 per thousand : still below the average 1
the Metropolis (although greatly increased by the deaths from
Small Pox).
As above stated, a certain number of deaths of persons
removed from the Parish, take place in General Hospitals, &c.
The accurate apportioning of these to the several Parishes
cannot be effected with certainty. The Registrar-General, in
whose hands the details are, remarks that "the deaths recorded
in Public Institutions form a most disturbing element in calculating
local rates of mortality in the districts and sub-districts of
London." We must, therefore, rest satisfied with this approximation.
The death rate for the Metropolis in 1871, was 24.7
per thousand.
Thus the year 1871 has been favorable in regard to its mortality;
the deaths being considerably below the average of the last
10 years, below the number for any one of the last 10 years, below
that for the preceding year, and below that of the Metropolis
generally.
The deaths arising from all the zymotic diseases were below
that of the last year; as were also those arising from the
principal zymotic diseases, which are so especially under the
control of sanitary measures, (see table p. 19.)
Hence the Resolution of the Vestry, dated Feb. 1st, 1872,
(moved by Mr. G. Brooke, and seconded by Mr. H. J. Brown,)
"That the sanitary condition of the Parish of Clerkenwell is in
a most unsatisfactory condition, &c.," is not, as I stated in a
Spicial Report (1872), founded on facts.
The number of deaths from all the special zymotic diseases
has been diminished, except that from Small Pox, 60 deaths
from which occurred in the Parish in the year; and from Hooping
Cough from which 62 deaths took place.
Small Pox prevailed epidemically during the last quarter of
1870, both in this Parish and in the Metropolis; and during
1871, it continued to prevail in the Metropolis generally to an
unparalleled extent, causing 7876 deaths; the numbers for the
preceding 10 years having been 215, 345. 2012, 537, 646, 1388,
1332, 606, 273, and 958. Nearly 23,000 deaths were caused by
it in all England.
318 cases were attended by the Parochial Medical Officers
during the year.