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Senile Mortality.
The number of deaths over 65 years of age in 1903 was 396. This is much less than the
same figure in 1902, which was 473. This is due to the diminution of deaths from respiratory
disorders.
Death Certification
There were 5 uncertified deaths during 1903.
Zymotic Diseases.
The following table gives the death rates for the principal zymotic diseases. Corresponding
figures are given for London for comparison.
Table E.
Year.
All Causes.
Principal
Zymotic
Diseases.
Small-Pox.
Measles.
Diphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Simple
Continued
Fever.
Enteric
Fever.
Scarlet
Fever.
Typhus
Fever.
Diarrhœa.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Ra te.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
Rate.
No.
23.6
3.21
18
.13
47
.34
52
.38
118
.86
82
.60
1
.00
18
.13
-
-
104
.76
1893
440
3243
1894
2766
20.1
1
.00
42
.31
100
.73
71
.52
.00
18
.13
449
3.27
139
1.01
1
-
77
.56
-
1895
21.6
411
2.99
1
.00
136
24
64
3 7
-
22
.16
-
127
2966
.99
.17
.46
.27
-
-
.92
24
1896
21.6
542
3.95
-
.94
35
108
1.06
-
.17
-
2968
-
129
.25
.79
146
-
100
.73
-
1897
21.4
537
3.95
-
103
.43
87
-
16
2902
-
.76
58
85
.62
.64
.12
-
188
1.38
-
-
-
1898
2776
20.6
2.79
.72
.22
58
73
.54
11
-
375
-
97
30
.43
-
.08
-
106
.79
-
-
1899
24.1
3.31
.17
129
.97
.32
.23
-
3204
440
-
92
.69
23
43
2
.01
31
-
120
.90
1900
23.2
437
3.32
-
.11
-
37
.28
-
-
3062
-
87
.66
14
88
.67
94
.71
117
.89
-
20.8
14
2.96
.10
45
.34
36
56
22
5
.03
1.0
1901
2719
387
76
.58
.27
.42
—
.16
133
-
21.2
3.06
31
1.19
18
64
.09
-
1902
2756
396
.24
154
.14
29
.22
.49
-
12
-
88
.68
-
Average
for years
1893-1902.
106
.79
.56
.4
.00
.15
.5
0.00
116
.86
2936
21.8
441
34
.25
81
.60
75
21
.05
3.28
6.5
3
1903
2382
18.4
1.96
-
-
50
.39
25
.19
18
.14
41
.32
.02
.09
-
.80
251
11
-
103
1.75
3
368
.08
5
2925
Loudon
1903
6973
15.1
8088
13
.00
2046
361
.08
740
.16
1627
.35
.00
.00
.63
.44
Examination of this table shows that with the exception of scarlet fever, typhus and diarrhœa,
there has been a great diminution all round, i.e., both in the number and rate of zymotic diseases.
The latter is 1.96 per thousand living in 1903, compared with 3.06 for 1902. There has been a
similar but not quite so marked decline all over London.
Small-pox.
There were no deaths from this disease in Bermondsey in 1903.
Measles.
There were 50 deaths due to this disease, which is about half the average for the last ten
years and a third of what occurred in 1902.
The deaths occurred in quarters as follows, viz.:—31, 11, 7, 1. The first quarter is the
highest. As explained in last year's report uncomplicated measles very rarely produces death.
By far the commonest and most dangerous complication is broncho-pneumonia, and this will
largely account for the preponderance of deaths in the first quarter of the year.
Whooping Cough.
41 deaths were attributed to this cause against 56 during the year 1902; of these 7 occurred
in the first quarter; the numbers in the remaining quarters being 18, 7 and 9 respectively.
This gives a death rate of .32 per thousand.
Typhus Fever.
4 deaths were attributed to this cause, the ages being 9 (f), 29 (f), 23 (m), and 44 (f):
The matter is fully dealt with under the head of notification vide p. 11, et seq.
Enteric Fever.
11 deaths were due to this cause, viz., 7 in Bermondsey, 2 in Rotherhithe, and 2 in St.
Olave's. This is exactly half the number of deaths that occurred from this cause in 1901.
Simple Continued Fever.
No deaths occurred which could be placed under this cause.
Diarrhœa.
Under this head are included :—
Epidemic enteritis.
Zymotic ,,
Epidemic or summer diarrhœa.
Dysentery or dysenteric diarrhoea.
Choleraic diarrhoea, Cholera, and Cholera nostras (in absence of Asiatic Cholera).