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Clerkenwell 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOE 1880.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwel
during the year 1880, was 1313. The annual average of the last
ten years was 1400, so that the deaths were 87 less than the
average. The deaths in 1879 having been 1456, those in 1880
were 143 less than in the preceding year.
The accompanying Table exhibits the number of deaths which
have taken place in each of the last 10 years; the births in each
year being placed opposite :–