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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 1885

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

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Table: The accompanying table exhibits the number of deaths which have taken place in the Parish in each of the last ten years, the births in each year being placed opposite: —

The accompanying table exhibits the number of deaths which have taken place in the Parish in each of the last ten years, the births in each year being placed opposite: —

DEATHS.BIRTHS.
18761,3422,559
18771,3852,522
18781,3032,590
18791,4562,667
18801,3132,430
18811,2542,414
18821,2612,420
18831,1722,402
18841,3032,448
18851,1952,390

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The births were thus 58 less than in the preceding year, and
94 less than the average.

Table: According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—

According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—

DEATHS.BIRTHS.EXCESS.
St. James323624301
Amwell320650330
Pentonville254499245
Goswell298617319

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In each year a number of deaths of the parishioners takes
place in general and special Hospitals, in the Workhouses, which
are extra-parochial, in the Infirmary, and in Lunatic Asylums.
The number of deaths which occurred in the Hospitals was
123; in the Workhouses, 64; in the Infirmary, 87; in the
Asylums Board Hospitals, 19; and in Lunatic Asylums, 7; so
that the extra-parochial deaths in all amounted to 300 ; making
a grand total of 1,495.