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was 397, at the end of the year, viz. : 176 males, 134 females, and
87 children. 15 deaths took place in the House of Correction; the
number for 1871 being 24. 5 deaths occurred in the House of
Detention.
The accidental deaths were 30 ; the number for 1871 being 26.
8 of these arose from fractures and contusions ; 2 from wounds ; 2
from burns and scalds ; 19 from accidental suffocation in infants ;
??? from other causes.
3 children were murdered during the year.
8 deaths arose from suicide, viz.: 1 from wound ; 1 from poison ;
and 6 from hanging.
108 inquests were held in the year ; the number for the preceding
year having been 115.
The Table appended to this Report, contains an enumeration of
the deaths, according to the diseases and ages, in further detail.
Hence the mortality of the year 1872 was below that of the
Average of the last 10 years ; below that of the preceding year ;
and in fact, below that occuring in any year during the existence of
the Vestry ; the mortality per 1000 being 20. This result is obtained
???y comparing the numbers of deaths registered in the district
during each of the years concerned. But I have stated that a
certain number of deaths of parishioners occur in Hospitals, &c.,
the number of which calculated as belonging to Clerkenwell in 1872
Amounted to 113. The addition of these would raise the mortality
per 1000 to 21. But it must be borne in mind, that many of the
patients who die in the Metropolitan Hospitals are brought from
the country, and so tend considerably to raise the mortality of the
metropolis and its component districts.
In 18 large towns of England, the mortality per 1000 was
determined by the Registrar-General for 1872 to be :—average total
55.8; London, 21.4; Portsmouth, 22.9; Norwich, 26.3; Bristol, 22;
Wolverhampton, 25.9 ; Birmingham, 23.0 ; Leicester, 26.8 ; Nottingham,
25.3; Liverpool, 27.1; Manchester, 28.6; Salford, 25.8;
Dldham, 31 1 ; Bradford, 26.3 ; Leeds, 27.9 ; Sheffield, 26.0 ; Hull,
26.1; Sunderland, 26.5 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26.3.