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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bermondsey 1880

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1880

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ANNUAL REPORT.
To THE Vestry of BERMONDSEY,
MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the pleasure of submitting my fifth Annual
Report on the Vital Statistics of the Parish. The
period comprised is the Registration year of 52 weeks,
which ended on the first day of January, 1881. In
conformity with a resolution of the Vestry, which was
passed many years ago, my Fortnightly Reports are
printed herewith.
As the low temperature of 1879 had the effect of
causing a greater number of deaths from diseases of
the respiratory organs and a smaller number of deaths
from diarrhœa, it is quite in accordance with natural