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disease to masters of houses. Six hundred and
ninety-eight cases of infectious disease were
reported to the Superintending Visitor of the
School Board. Of the notifications of those
notifiable diseases which are eligible for admission
to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
52.47 per cent, were admitted to the Managers'
hospitals. The percentage of such cases received
from Bermondsey was 62.81, which I think shows
that the Parish had its fair share of hospital
accommodation.
SANITARY WORK.
The number of houses and other premises
inspected during the year ending Lady-day, 1897,
was 3,606. Notices and intimations served for the
execution of Sanitary works numbered 2,431; of
re-inspections of premises there were 8,601. Six
hundred and fifty-seven houses were disinfected,
cleansed and purified. The number of defective
drains which required to be re-constructed or
trapped was 283, being a much smaller number
than in the previous year. The offensive accumulations
removed numbered 70. The cases of overcrowding
which required abatement were 82, being
fewer than in the previous year. Eighteen houses