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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There were 2 deaths from cancer and 1 from heart
disease.
The number of deaths of children under 1 year of
age was 6, and of persons aged 60 years and
upwards 1.
Three inquests were held. All these deaths were
due to violent causes: 2 to accidental suffocation in
bed, and 1 to an accidental fall causing concussion of
the brain.
One death was uncertified. It was that of a newly
born child from inanition.
Eight deaths of parishioners took place in public
institutions.
The number of notified cases of infectious disease
was 10, there were of scarlet fever 7, of diphtheria 2,
and of enteric fever 1.
In the week that ended on the 28th September, 79
births and 21 deaths were registered in the parish,
indicating an annual birth rate of 48·5, and an annual
death rate of 12·9 per thousand inhabitants.
In the class of zymotic diseases measles caused 1
death, and diarrhœa 1.