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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 1872

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

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Table: The subjoined table exhibits the number of deaths occurrning in each of the last 10 year, the number of births for the same years being placed opposite:-

The subjoined table exhibits the number of deaths occurrning in each of the last 10 year, the number of births for the same years being placed opposite:-

Deaths.Births.
186315092449
186417352224
186516132689
186616612434
186714972452
186816442478
186915122410
187014732415
187114172274
187213232353
15382317

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The births were 36 more than the average.

Table: Tho sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, were as follows:—

Tho sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, were as follows:—

Deaths.Births.Excess.
St. James421722301
Amwell301573272
Pentonville269485216
Goswell332573241

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Every year, a certain number of the deaths of parishioners occur
in General and Special Hospitals, and in Lunatic Asylums, situated
in other parishes. The estimated number of these for 1872 is 113.
The number of births being 2353, and the deaths 1323, the
excess, or the natural increase of the population, amounted to 1030.
The number of deaths which arose from all the zymotic diseases
in 1872, was 305; that for the preceding year being 302; thus
there was an increase of 3.
The number of deaths from the principal zymotic diseases in
1872, was 274; being a difference of 5 from the number for the
preceding year.
The numbers and causes of deaths from the
principal zymotic diseases during the last 10 years are exhibited in
the subjoined table:—