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The cases of overcrowding in Metcalfe Court and Aldred Street
have been investigated.
The trotter boiler in Alderminster Road has removed his
apparatus from the premises.
I have inspected the houses on each side of the approach to the
Bridge in St. James's Road. If the Vestry think proper to deal
with these houses under the Sanitary Acts, there are abundant
reasons to justify this course. I am doubtful whether Torrens's Act
is applicable, unless the Vestry are prepared to purchase the property.
There are no facts which would enable me to certify these
houses as an unhealthy area, to be dealt with under the provisions
of the Artizans' Dwellings Act, 1875.
Professor Wanklyn in his report on the organic matter in the
water supplied to London by the various water companies during
the month of September last, gives his opinion that "the general
character of the water supply is excellent." The water of the
Southwark and Vauxhall Company, according to his analysis, was
slightly inferior to that supplied by other Companies.
November 15th, 1880.
During the fortnight that ended on the 6th day of
November, 148 births and 66 deaths were registered in the parish.
These numbers are equivalent to an annual birth rate of 38·5, and
to an annual rate of mortality of 17·2 per 1000 of the estimated
population. The death rate in London for the same period was 31.7.
The causes of death included 12 from diseases of the zymotic
class, viz:-smallpox 1, measles 2, scarlet fever 4, typhus 1, and
diarrhœa 4.
Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 11 deaths, viz:—
bronchitis 6, pneumonia 4, and croup 1.
From the tubercular diseases there were 15 deaths, of which
11 were referred to phthisis, 2to meningitis, and 2 to tabes.
There were 5 deaths from old age, 4 from apoplexy, and 2
from heart disease.
Two Inquests were held, and in both cases the deaths were
attributed to natural causes.