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R E P O R T
TO
The Board of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1893,
BY
Dr. S. BLAKE JOLLY,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
The number of deaths registered in this District during
the year 1893 was 1468, being 8 less than the number
registered during the previous year, making the death rate
15.1 per 1000, as compared with 15.6 per 1000 in 1892.*
The year 1893 has been one of many dangers from a
sanitary point of view.
(1.) Diphtheria and scarlet fever have been even more
prevalent in London than in 1892, and in a worse form.
(2 ) There has been a most serious outbreak of smallpox
throughout the country, and more especially in London.
(3.) There has been another epidemic of influenza,
though fortunately of a milder type.
(4) The country has again been threatened with cholera,
and has only escaped owing to the great care and promptness
displayed in the means taken to prevent its introduction
amongst us
In spite of these dangers the Lewisham District has
been in a satisfactory condition, though they have not been
*This is the first year in which the corrected death rate is given for this
District, i.e., in which the deaths of residents in this District, occurring in
public institutions situated beyond the District, have been included in the total
number of deaths. According to the old reckoning the death rate for this
District for 1893, would be 14.2 per 1000.