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According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which the
deaths and births occurred, they stand thus:—
DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
EXCESS.
St. James
315
593
278
Amwell
308
560
252
Pentonville
277
532
255
Goswell
268
626
358
In each year, a number of deaths of the parishioners takes place
in general and special Hospitals, in the Workhouses, in the Infirmary,
and in Lunatic Asylums, all of which are extra- parochial.
The number of deaths which occurred in the Hospitals was 161;
in the Workhouses, 79; in the Infirmary, 105, and in the Lunatic
Asylums, 8; 3 deaths also occurred in the street; so that the extraparochial
deaths in all amounted to 356; making a grand total of
1,524.
At the Census in 1871, the population of Clerkenwell
amounted to 65,380; in 1881, to 69,076; the increase being 3,696.
Assuming this rate of increase to have continued during the last
seven years, the present population of the Parish would be 71,659.
At this rate, the intra-parochial mortality for the year has been
16.2 per 1,000; including the hospital deaths, 18.5; and the
workhouses and infirmary deaths, 21.2 per 1,000.
Hence the mortality of the year has been slightly below that of
the preceding year, and is below the average of the last 10 years.
Hence, although the mortality of the year has slightly diminished,
it would certainly be less if the order and personal and home cleanliness
of many of the inhabitants were more carefully attended to.
In the model dwellings, where these conditions are studiously observed,
the mortality is much lower. Thus in the Farringdon Road
Buildings, which I do not consider the very best in the parish, the
mortality of the year has been 12 per 1,000 only, against 21 per
l,000 in the whole parish, and 18 in the Metropolis.
The mortality of all London during the year, was 18 5—That of
the West Districts, 18.3; the £orth Districts, 16.6; of the Central
Districts, 25.7; of the East Districts, 21.8; and of the South
Districts, 17.2.