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51
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For 1881.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenvell.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of laying before you my 26th
Annual Report, viz.:—That for the year 1881.
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwell,
during the year 1880, was 1254. The annual average of the
last ten years was 1384, so that the deaths were 130 less than
the average. The deaths in 1880 having been 1313, those in
1881 were 59 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:—