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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 1882

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

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49
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
For 1883.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of laying before you my 27th
Annual Report, viz.:— That for the year 1882.
The number of deaths arising from all causes in Clerkenwell,
during the year 1882, was 12G1. The annual average of the
last ten years was 1378, so that the deaths were 117 less than
the average. The deaths in 1881 having been 1254, those in
1882 were 7 more 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 :—