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REPORT
Of
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For 1874.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell,
Gentlemen,
The present is my 19th Annual Report, for the past year 1874,
and which may be regarded as forming a summary of the Reports
presented periodically to your ordinary meetings.
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwell during
the year 1874, was 1417. The annual average of the last 10 years wag
1506; so that the deaths were 89 below the average. The deaths
in 1873 having been 1513, those in 1874 were 96 less than in that
year.
The accompanying table exhibits the number of deaths taking
place in each of the last 10 years, the number of births for each
year being placed opposite:—
Deaths.
Births.
1865
1613
2689
1866
1661
2434
1867
1497
2452
1868
1641
2478
1839
1512
2410
1870
1473
2415
1871
1417
2274
1872
1323
2353
1873
1513
2664
1874
1417
2565
The births were 192 more than the average.
Arranged according to the Registrars' sub-districts in which they
occurred, the births and deaths is stand thus:—