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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The number of deaths of parishioners in outlying
institutions was 7, corresponding to an annual death
rate of 4·2 per thousand inhabitants.
The notifications of infectious diseases numbered
20, they were of scarlet fever 11, diphtheria 7, and
erysipelas 2.
In the week that ended on October 26th, there
were registered in the parish 51 births and 31 deaths,
indicating an annual birth rate of 31·3, and an annual
death rate of 19·0 per thousand inhabitants.
Zymotic diseases caused 4 deaths, viz.: measles 3,
and diphtheria 1.
From diseases of the respiratory system there were
10 deaths : 6 from bronchitis, and 4 from pneumonia.
Five deaths were referred to diseases of the
tubercular order : 4 to phthisis, and 1 to meningitis.
The number of deaths of children during the first
year of life was 10, and of persons aged 60 years and
upwards 6.
One inquest was held. The death in this case was
attributed to phthisis. One death was uncertified.
This was referred to phthisis.