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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Clerkenwell 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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It should be remembered that there are 52 houses in the Muswell
Hill portion of the Parish, containing 318 inhabitants. These are
enumerated in the Pentonville District.
The mortality of all London during the year was 21—That of
the West Districts being 20; the North Districts, also 20; the Central
Districts, 26; of the East Districts, 24; and of the South Districts,
19.

Table: 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:—

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
18821,2612,420
18831,1722,402
18841,3032,448
18851,1952,390
18861,1702,279
18871,2162,303
18881,1682,311
18891,0332,277
18901,1842,204
18911,1712,222

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Sixty deaths also occurred from zymotic diseases in extraparochial
hospitals; viz.:— 3 from measles; 24 from scarlet fever;
21 from diphtheria; 9 from typhoid fever; and 3 from diarrhcoa.