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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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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small pox.
measles.
scarlet fever.
hooping cough.
typhus.
diarrhoea.
totals.
1872
15
35
20
105
76
23
274
1873
0
48
13
49
29
95
234
1874
2
63
71
38
31
55
260
1875
2
36
76
82
24
58
278
1876
2
48
34
41
12
73
210
1877
15
73
82
36
25
53
284
1878
1
39
41
56
25
73
235
1879
1
77
44
61
11
36
227
1880
2
26
51
87
14
65
245
1881
10
39
54
53
26
58
240
The average number of deaths from the principal zymotic
diseases during the past ten years, was 248; so that the number
for 1881 is 8 below the average.
The number of deaths arising from all diseases in infants
under 1 year of age was 368; 57 less than in the preceding
year. 205 deaths occurred at and above 60; 22 less than in the
preceding year.
119 inquest-deaths were registered in the year, being 12
more than in 1880.