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Clerkenwell 1884

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

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small pox.
measles.
scarlet fever.
hooting cough.
typhus.
diarrhoea.
totals.
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
74
44
61
11
36
227
1880
2
26
51
87
14
65
245
1881
10
39
54
53
26
58
240
1882
0
61
60
81
18
40
260
1883
0
61
46
33
16
59
215
1884
6
48
27
69
7
79
236
The average number of deaths arising from the principal
zymotic diseases during the past 10 years was 243 ; so that the
number for 1884 was 7 below the average.
The zymotic deaths occurring in extraparochial hospitals,
amounted to 31, viz.: 16 from Small Pox,—13 of these in the
Asylums Board Hospitals; 2 from Scarlet Fever; 6 from
Diphtheria; 3 from Typhoid Fever; 1 from Hooping Cough;
and 3 from Diarrhoea.
Small Pox was unusually prevalent in the parish during the
year, as it was also in the metropolis generally. As regards the
individual districts, the Registrar-General's tables show that the