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67
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1888.
To the Vestry St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
1 do myself the honour of laying before you my Thirtythird
Annual Report, viz.: that for the year 1888.
The number of deaths occurring from all causes in Clerkenwell
during the year 1888 was 1,168. The annual average for the last
ten years was 1,250, so that the deaths were 82 less than the
average. The deaths in 1887 having been 1,216, those in 1888 were
48 less than in the preceding year.
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:—
1879
DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
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
1887
1,216
2,363
1888
1,168
2,311
The births were thus 52 less than in the preceding year, and 101
less than the average.