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The water supplied during the previous month contained
only a small proportion of organic matter for the season of
the year.
The deaths from Scarlet Fever in London are slightly below
the average.
December 19th, 1887.
During the fortnight that ended on the 10th day of December,
108 births and 73 deaths were registered in the Parish. These
numbers shew an annual birth rate of 31.0, and an annual rate
of mortality of 20.9 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
The corresponding death rate in London was 20.3 per 1,000.
The number of deaths from Zymotic Diseases was 13, viz.: —
From Measles, four; Scarlet Fever, four; Whooping Cough,
three; Enteric Fever, one; and Diarrhoea, one. In the
hospitals there were seven deaths from Scarlet Fever in patients
who had been removed from Bermondsey. There was one
death from Scarlet Fever in Flockton Street on the 21st of
November, and one death from Whooping Cough in the same
street, but not in the same house, on December the 2nd.
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs caused 23 deaths, and
those of the Tubercular class, 13.
Sixteen children died under one year of age, and nine
persons at upwards. of 60 years of age.
Four inquests were held. Three deaths were referred to
Natural Causes, and one was that of a person unknown,
" Found Drowned; no marks of violence, no proof how he came
into the water."
The letters from the Society of Medical Officers of Health,
the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and the Kensington Vestry, on the subject
of the Notification of Infectious Diseases, which were referred
to the General Purposes Committee on the 7th of November,
have been again referred to me. I think it is desirable that
the Vestry should pass a resolution in favour of the principle
of the compulsory notification of infectious diseases throughout
the Metropolis. The best way of carrying this out may be
left to the Local Government Board and the Legislature.