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yielding a total death-rate of 22.3 per 1,000. This is our true
death-rate. It is considerably higher than the rate for Registration
London, which for 1899 was 19.8; but it compares favourably with
that of our immediate neighbours in Central London, Holborn
having a rate of 24.9 and St. Luke's 28.4. Last year (1898) the
true death-rate of Clerkenwell was 21.5.
The increase in the death-rate has been largely due to a
considerable increase in the extra-parochial deaths. As many as
553 Clerkenwell persons died in various institutions outside the
district, as compared with 493 in 1898. The number of intraparochial
deaths occurring in Clerkenwell from all causes during
1899 was 925. Last year it was 933, and the annual average for
the past 10 years is 1,025, so that the intra-parochial deaths are
respectively 8 less than last year and 100 less than the average.

The 925 intra-parochial deaths, with a population of 66,202, gives
a death-rate of 13.9 per 1,000 for 1899, as compared with 14.0 per
1,000 in 1898, and 14.5 per 1,000 in 1897.
The following table from the Registrar-General compares the
death-rates of London and Clerken well and neighbouring districts
for 1899, after distribution of deaths in public institutions. I have
also added the rates for one of the healthiest districts in London,
namely, Hampstead, for purposes of comparison:—