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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 1879

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

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In each year a number of tho deaths of the parishioners takes
place in general and special Hospitals, and in Lunatic Asylums,
situated in other parishes. The estimated number of these for
1879 is 100.
The number of births having been 2,667, and of deaths 1,456,
the excess or the natural increase of population, is 1,211.
The number of deaths arising from the principal zymotic
diseases in 1879, was 227; being 8 less than in the preceding
year.
The numbers and causes of the deaths taking place from
these principal zymotic diseases during the last ten years, are
exhibited in the subjoined table:—

Table: 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:—

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.
18701,4732,415
18711,4172,274
18721,3232,353
18731,5132,664
18741,4172,565
18751,5392,505
18761,3422,559
18771,3852,522
18781,3032,590
18791,4562,667

Table: According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—

According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—

deaths. births.excess.
St. James463804341
Amwell374698324
Pentonville298511213
Goswell321654333