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17
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR
187 7.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwell,
during the year 1877, was 1,385. The annual average of the
last ten years was 1,456, so that the deaths were 71 below the
average. The deaths in 1876 having been 1,342, those in 1877
were 43 less than in the preceding year.
The accompanying table exhibits the number of deaths which
have taken place in each of the last ten years, the births in each
year being placed opposite:—
deaths.
births.
1868
1,644
2,478
1869
1,512
2,410
1870
1,473
2,415
1871
1,417
2,274
1872
1,323
2,353
1873
1,513
2,664
1874
1,417
2,565
1875
1,539
2,505
1876
1,342
2,559
1877
1,385
2,522
The births were 48 more than the average.
According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which
the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—
deaths.
births.
excess.
St. James
452
759
307
Amwell
352
660
308
Pentonville
268
488
220
Goswell
313
615
302