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There were 18 deaths in children under one year of age, and
12 deaths in persons aged sixty and upwards. Of the latter 3 were
between seventy-five and eighty, and 3 above eighty years.
The Thames water supplied in October is reported to have
been of inferior quality to that which was delivered in September.
The zymotic death rate is low and the general state of the public
health is satisfactory.
December 8th, 1880.
During the three weeks that ended on the 27th day of
November, 205 births and 122 deaths were registered in the parish.
These numbers are equal to an annual birth rate of 35·6, and an
annual death rate of 21·3 per 1000 of the estimated population.
The death rate in London was 22·1.
The principal diseases of the zymotic class caused 24 deaths,
viz:—measles 9, scarlet fever 5, diphtheria 2, whooping cough 4,
typhus 1, and diarrhœa 3. Diseases of this class are unusually
prevalent. The zymotic death rate was 4·1, that of London being
2·8. The difficulty of properly isolating cases of infectious disease
in children is a very considerable one with poor persons who are
blessed with a numerous progency, and its importance is not
sufficiently appreciated by those who are in a position to adopt the
necessary precautions to present the spread of infection.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there were 33 deaths,
viz:—from bronchitis 26, pneumonia 5, asthma 1, croup 1. Ten
persons died of old age.
There were 18 deaths from consumption, 2 from meningitis,
and 1 from tabes.
The deaths under one year of age numbered 28, and above
sixty years of age 30.
Five Inquests were held. In 3 cases the deaths were attributed
to accident, and in 2 to natural causes.
Seven deaths were not certified. Six of these were children.
The causes were said to be bronchitis 2, convulsions 3, croup 1.
One was an adult said to have died from diabetes.
I have inspected the houses No. 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29, King
Street, Bermondsey New Road, and consider them unfit for human
habitation.