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ANNUAL REPORT
OF
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
My Seventeenth Annual Report on the state of
the Public Health in the Parish of Bermondsey,
includes the period of 52 weeks that ended on the
31st day of December, 1892.
The general mortality was below that of the
previous year, and was also below the average of
the preceding ten years. Zymotic diseases upon
the whole were less fatal, although a large number
of cases of scarlet fever was notified. Influenza
was more or less prevalent, and caused 39 deaths.
Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 115
fewer deaths than in 1891. There was also an
apparent reduction in the mortality from diseases of
the tubercular order, but if we take into consideration
the large number of deaths from phthisis,
which takes place in outlying institutions, no
important reduction is evident. The deaths from