Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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117
R E PORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1894. .
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I do myself the honour of laying before you my
Thirty-ninth Annual Report on the Mortality, &c., of the Parish
during the year 1894.
The number of deaths occurring from all causes in
Clerkenwell during the year 1894 was 807. The annual average
for the last ten years was 1,124, so that the deaths were 817 less
than the average. The deaths in 1893 having been 1,183, those
in 1894 were 376 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. | |
---|---|---|
1885 | 1,195 | 2,390 |
1886 | 1,170 | 2,279 |
1887 | 1,216 | 2,363 |
1888 | 1,168 | 2,311 |
1889 | 1,033 | 2,277 |
1890 | 1,184 | 2,204 |
1891 | 1,171 | 2,222 |
1892 | 1,125 | 2,175 |
1893 | 1,183 | 2,106 |
1894 | 807 | 2,180 |
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