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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 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
1871
1417
2274
1872
1323
2353
1873
1513
2664
1874
1417
2565
1875
1539
2505
1876
1342
2559
1877
1385
2522
1878
1303
2590
1879
1456
2667
1880
1313
2430
The births were thus 237 less than in the preceding year, and
82 less than the average.
According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the
births and deaths occurred, they stand thus :—
According to the Registrar-Greneral s sub-districts in which the
births and deaths occurred, they stand thus :—
DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
EXCESS.
St. James
350
665
315
Amwell
331
621
290
Pentonville
298
493
195
Groswell
334
651
317
In each year a number of the deaths of the parishioners takes
place in General an:l Special Hospitals, and in Lunatic Asylums,
situated in other parishes. The estimated number of these for
1880 is 98.
The number of births having been 2430, and of deaths 1313,
the excess or the natural increase of population, is 1117.
The number of deaths arising from the principal zymotic
diseases in 1880 was 245 ; being 14 more than in the preceding
year.
The number and causes of deaths taking place from
these principal zymotic diseases during the last 10 years, are
exhibited in the subjoined table