Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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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. | |
---|---|---|
1877 | 1,385 | 2,522 |
1878 | 1,303 | 2,590 |
1879 | 1,456 | 2,667 |
1880 | 1,313 | 2,430 |
1881 | 1,254 | 2,414 |
1882 | 1,261 | 2,420 |
1883 | 1,172 | 2,402 |
1884 | 1,303 | 2,448 |
1885 | 1,195 | 2,390 |
1886 | 1,170 | 2,279 |
The births were thus 111 less than in the preceding year, and
177 less than the average.
According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the deaths and births occurred, they stand thus :—
deaths. | births. | excess. | |
---|---|---|---|
St. James | 310 | 564 | 254 |
Amwell | 293 | 590 | 297 |
Pentonville | 239 | 483 | 244 |
Goswell | 328 | 312 |
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 132 ;
in the Workhouses, 61; in the Infirmary, 92; in the Asylum's
Board hospitals, 6; and in Lunatic Asylums, 16; while 3 deaths
occurred in the streets; so that the extra-parochial deaths in all
amounted to 310, making a grand total of 1,480.