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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 submitting my Twentieth
Annual Report on the sanitary condition of the
Parish of Bermondsey. It includes the registration
year of 1895, or a period of 52 weeks that ended on
the 28th day of December last.
The general mortality of the year exceeded that
of 1894 by 135 deaths, and was also slightly above
the average of the last three years. The excess
occurred mainly in the first and last quarters of the
year, and may be justly attributed to exceptional
states of the weather rather than to any increase in
those diseases which are most likely to be influenced
by sanitary regulations. An increase in the number
of deaths from measles was counter-balanced by a