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The deaths of two centenarians were recorded —
one at the age of 100, and the other at the age of
102 years. Both were widows.
Twenty-one per cent of the deaths registered in
London in 1887 occurred in some or other public
institution. About one in nine of the deceased
persons died in a workhouse, and one in 133 in a
Metropolitan Asylum Hospital; while one in 12 died
in other hospitals, and one in 6O in an asylum for
lunatics or imbeciles. To include all these cases
the number of deaths of Bermondsey parishioners
should be raised to 2,000, of which 1,731 took place
within the Parish and 269 beyond its boundaries.
These deaths in public institutions included—
Scarlet Fever, 17; Diphtheria, six; Whooping
Cough, three; Enteric Fever, two; and Diarrhoea,
five. I have no information as to the residences or
ages of these patients, nor any account of the
causes of death in the remaining cases.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The chief diseases of the Zymotic class caused
341 deaths against 279 in the previous year, and a
decennial average of 342. These deaths were 19.7
per cent., or nearly one-fifth, of the deaths from
all causes, and were in the proportion of 3.76 to
1,000 of the population. The Zymotic death rate
in London was 3.02.
Measles prevailed throughout the year, and
caused 89 deaths, exceeding the average by 23.