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For the week ending Nov. 10th, the deaths were 24, the corrected
average being 25 and a fraction. Our mortality was increased by
4 cases of whooping cough, 2 of scarlatina, 1 of diptheria, 1 of
typhus and 1 of diarrhœa.
In the following week ending November 17th, the mortality
was 22, the corrected average being within a fraction of 28. There
were 3 deaths from whooping cough, 2 from diarrhœa, 1 from scarlatina
and 1 from small pox.
For the week ending Nov. 24th, the deaths were 20, the corrected
average being within a fraction of 30. Whooping cough was again
fatal in 3 cases, scarlatina in 1, and typhus in 1. The month of
of November, sometimes a very severe and trying month, to the
weak and aged especially, has passed with us in a peculiarly favorable
manner.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
JOHN CHALLICE, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY.
Jan. 7th, 1861.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—The month of December just
passed, has proved very trying to the whole of the metropolis, and
our population has suffered in common with others.
The great vicisitudes of the temperature has borne with severity on
the human constitution and its influence has been generally felt.
The character of a large portion of the population of Bermondsey
would especially expose its inhabitants to the diseases which have
lately increased mortality. Inclemency of the weather, with us,
brings not only the usual trials with which the working classes have
to struggle, but also by stopping work adds most materially to their
hardships. Under these circumstances it might have been expected
that we should have suffered in a much greater degree than we have