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Clerkenwell 1886

[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.
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
18861,1702,279

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. James310564254
Amwell293590297
Pentonville239483244
Goswell328312

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.