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 1895
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Other causes of death included 2 from old age and
3 from apoplexy.
Five inquests were held. These were 2 cases of
accidental suffocation in bed (male 3 months, female
1 month). Two deaths were uncertified.
The number of deaths of children under 1 year of
age was 17, and of persons aged 60 years and
upwards 17.
From January 6th to 19th the infectious cases
notified were only 12. They were of scarlet fever 5,
diphtheria 6, and erysipelas 1.
The water delivered by the Southwark Company
was efficiently filtered.
I certify that the houses Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, Norfolk
Place, and Nos. 48, 49 and 50, Salisbury Street, are
unfit for human habitation, and in a state beyond
repair.
Januasry 28th, 1895.
During the fortnight that ended on the 20th day
of January, 129 births and 61 deaths were registered
in the parish. These numbers correspond to an
annual birth rate of 39.6, and an annual rate of
mortality of 18.7 per thousand of the estimated