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The number of deaths of children under one year of age
was 72, and of persons aged 60 years and upwards 28.
Fifteen inquests were held. Five deaths were due to
violence, including 1 case of suicide.
The water supplied by the Southwark Company was
efficiently filtered, and when compared with the river water
at Hampton showed great chemical improvement.
The notifications of infectious diseases received between
28th July and 16th September numbered 152. They were
of scarlet fever 89, small-pox 3, erysipelas 25, diphtheria
24, membranous croup 2, enteric fever 5, typhoid 2,
puerperal fever 1, continued fever 1.
A letter on the notification of infectious diseases has been
received from the Vestry of Rotherhithe, which I have the
pleasure of submitting.
I have visited the premises of the London and South
Eastern Railway Company, and of the London, Brighton
and South Coast Railway Company, where stable manure is
received for the purpose of being sent into the country. I
did not find any more commodious and open space on either
station than the one in use. I was informed by the officials
that offensive materials are not received, that fish refuse is
not taken except during the winter months, that stable
manure, peat manure and rag refuse are received between
the hours of 9 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., and that everything of
the nature of manure which has been brought to the
station in the intervals of those hours is invariably removed
during the following night. I saw several trucks which
were loaded with fresh stable dung, one truck with old and
rotten stable manure, one with spent hops, and one with a
mixture of stable dung and lime grounds. There was
practically no nuisance which I could certify, under the
circumstances, as being injurious to health. If due care
be taken by the foreman in charge of the trucks in observing
the regulations, and in loading the trucks at the
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