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Bermondsey 1887

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1887

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ANNUAL REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour of presenting my Twelfth
Annual Report on the state of the Public Health
in the Parish of Bermondsey.
It embraces the period of 52 weeks that ended
on the 31st day of December, 1887.
Compared with the previous year, there was an
increase of 33 in the total number of deaths from
all causes. The mortality, however, was 67 below
the average of the 10 preceding years.
The deaths registered in the Parish showed an
annual death rate of 19.1 per 1,000 of the
estimated population.
The deaths from the principal diseases of the
Zymotic class numbered 341, being 62 more than