Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1894
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Two deaths were referred to influenza in conjunction
with other diseases.
Diseases of the tubercular order caused 9 deaths,
viz. : phthisis 6, meningitis 1, and tabes mesenterica
2.
There were 2 deaths from old age and 1 from
diabetes.
The number of deaths of children under 1 year
of age was 14, and of persons aged 60 years and
upwards 7.
Three inquests were held. All the deaths were
from violent causes. Two were from accidental
suffocation.
The notifications of infectious diseases received
from November 15th to 30th were 46, viz. : of
scarlet fever 29, diphtheria 11, erysipelas 4, and
enteric fever 2.
19th December, 1894.
During the fortnight that ended on the Bth day
of December, 125 births and 49 deaths were
registered in the parish. These numbers indicate
an annual birth rate of 38.5, and an annual rate of
mortality of 15.0 per thousand of the estimated
population. The corresponding death rate in London
was 17.7.