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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical officer of health
To the Vestry of Bermondsey—
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
My Twenty-third Annual Report on the sanitary condition
and vital statistics of the Parish of Bermondsey relates
to the period of 52 weeks which commenced on the 2nd day
of January, and ended on the 31st day of December, 1898.
The births were 86, and the deaths 112, fewer than the
numbers recorded in the previous year. The prevailing
zymotic diseases were diarrhœa, measles, whooping cough,
and diphtheria, but the mortality from each of these
diseases was less than it was in 1897. There were also fewer
deaths from scarlet fever and enteric fever. Diseases of
the respiratory organs were less fatal, and those of the tubercular
order were not more so. The deaths from cancer,
which had been steadily increasing in number during the
last five years, were 5 less than in 1897. The number of
deaths of parishioners which took place in hospitals and
outlying public institutions was further increased by 31.
The majority of these deaths took place in Rotherhithe