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Clerkenwell 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR 1878.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwell,
during the year 1878, was 1,303. The annual average of the last
ten years was 1,422, so that the deaths were 119 below the average.
The deaths in 1877 having been 1,385, those in 1878 were 82 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 :—