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83
REPORT
i
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1891.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I do myself the honour of laying before you my Thirtysixth
Annual Report on the Mortality, &c., of the Parish during
the year 1891.
The number of deaths occurring from all causes in Clerkenwell
during the year 1891 was 1,171. The annual average for the last
ten years was 1,187, so that the deaths were 16 below the
average. The deaths in 1890 having been 1,184, those in 1891 were
13 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:—
deaths.
births
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
2,303
1888
1,168
2,311
1889
1,033
2,277
1890
1,184
2,204
1891
1,171
2,222
The births were 18 more than in the preceding year, but 109
below the average,