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ANNUAL REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY—
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
My Fifteenth Annual Report on the State of
the Public Health in the Parish of Bermondsey
embraces the period of 53 weeks that ended on the
third day of January, 1891.
The general mortality exceeded that of the year
1889, which was an exceptionally favourable year.
Diseases of the organs of respiration, especially
bronchitis and pneumonia, were much more fatal
than usual. This may, in a great measure, be attributed
to prolonged periods of cold weather which
occurred in the spring months and at the close of
the year. In addition to these ordinary causes of