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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1898.
To the Vestry of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my third Annual Report—
upon the sanitary condition of the district of Clerkenwell.
I have followed the course adopted last year, and as the
population enumerated in 1891 and again in 1896 shewed a loss
of only 14, I have looked upon ours as a stationary population,
and taken as a basis for all my birth and death-rate calculations
the numbers actually found in the enumeration of 1896, namely,
66,202. The births registered in the district during 1898 were
2,072, a number slightly less than that recorded for 1897, which
was 2,092. The general birth-rates throughout the country are
similarly slightly less than those of the previous year. Our
birth-rate works out at 31.2 per 1000, for 1897 it was 31.6 per
1000. The number of intra-parochial deaths occurring in
Clerkenwell from all causes in 1898 was 933. Last year it was
966, and the annual average for the past ten years is 1,036, so
that the deaths are respectively 33 less than last year and 103
less than the average.