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Bermondsey 1883
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1883
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the pleasure of presenting my Eighth Annual
Report. It is a summary of the vital statistics of the Parish
for the year of 52 weeks, that ended on the 29th day of
December, 1883.
The year was a healthy one. The fatal cases of measles
and whooping cough, which in the previous year, had reached
the high number of 287, declined to 92. Summer Diarrhœa
was more prevalent, but only to a slight extent, and the
deaths from this cause were below the decennial average.
Scarlet Fever was the epidemic disease of the year, the fatal