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the impression that a resolution of the Vestry, affirming this principle,
would be of importance and value to us.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant.
JOHN CHALLICE,
Medical Officer of Health.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY.
January 31st, 1859.
Gentlemen, —In the week ending January Ist, the mortality of the
parish increased to a marked degree; the deaths registered being 41,
whilst the corrected average is but 32. Seventeen deaths occurred in
Saint James's district; of these, I was from Scarlatina, in Drunimondterrace,
and 3 from Whooping cough; and a Chelsea Pensioner, aged
88 died without medical attendance. The same number of deaths are
registered in St. Mary Magdalen. There is, I regret to state, one from
confluent Small-pox, Hanover street, where vaccination had been neglected.
"Whooping-cough was fatal in 2 cases, and one death was
registered from intemperance in the Leather-market district, where the
deaths are but 7 for the week.
As an unusual occurrence worthy of reflection 2 deaths are registered
from Syphilis, one being the wife of a journeyman lighterman, and the
other that of an infant.
For the following week, that ending January 8th, the deaths were
30, which is slightly below the corrected average. In St. James's the
deaths were but 6, and of these 2 were accidental, one a child two
years old from a scald, and the other an infant by a fall from a window.
Whooping cough was fatal in one case. In St. Mary Magdalen
the deaths -were 13 and of these no less than 9 were from affections of
the chest, and principally with the aged, for there is one 79, two 78,
one at 77, and one at 76 years of age, and all from Bronchitis.
In the Leather-market district the deaths are 11; two of these are
from Fever in William-street. I advise a house to house visitation in
this street.
For the week ending 15th of January the deaths are 29, which is in
excess of the average. There were 10 in the St. James's district, one
from Scarlatina; 10 in St. Mary Magdalen, one from Diptheria; and
9 in the Leather Market.
The week following, terminating January 22, the deaths were 23,
which is below the average by 8. There were 8 in St. James's,
2 being from Whooping cough; 9 in St. Mary Magdalen, one from
Scarlatina in Georges place, and one from Scarlatina, complicated with
Diptheria in the Grange Road. In the Leather Market district the
deaths were 6, none from Zymotic disease or requiring comment.
This week the Registrar-general alludes to 4 deaths in one family at
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