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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bermondsey 1895

Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1895

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Diseases of the tubercular order caused 6 deaths,
viz. : phthisis 4, meningitis 1, tuberculosis 1.
There were 2 deaths from heart disease, 1 from
apoplexy, and 1 from diabetes.
One inquest was held on a child accidentally
suffocated in bed. Two deaths were uncertified.
Ten cases of infectious disease were reported, 7 of
scarlet fever, 1 of erysipelas, and 2 of enteric fever.